While British support to the Saudi war on Yemen represented a bonanza for its arms industry, the continued aggression on the Arab country is meant to neutralize a potent regional threat to its Israeli proxy and to fulfill the fantasy of restoring military presence East of Suez.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the airstrikes carried out by the United States and the United Kingdom on Yemen’s capital Sana’a and elsewhere in the country, which killed and injured dozens of people.

The British government has introduced new legislation that calls on anyone in the UK who engages in activities that increase Iran’s “political influence” to report themselves to authorities or face jail term.

Foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany and Italy have backed the $53 billion Gaza reconstruction plan, endorsed by Arab leaders, that allows the territory’s roughly two million residents to remain in the territory.

Iran summons the British ambassador to Tehran in protest at baseless accusations leveled by London against the Islamic Republic.

Iran has refuted British officials' accusations that Tehran poses a national security threat to the UK, saying they blame the Islamic Republic for something they "excel in and master".  

More than 60 British members of the parliament and political figures have demanded a ban on the import of all goods coming into the UK from illegal Israeli settlements.