Hundreds of UK troops were just 200m away from an Iranian missile attack in Bahrain yesterday, The i Paper understands.
The UK was separately forced to shoot down a missile heading towards service personnel, with a counter-drone unit in Iraq taking out an Iranian drone that was heading towards a Coalition base housing British troops yesterday afternoon.
Iran has launched a wave of retaliatory attacks across the Middle East, after the US and Israel began “major combat operations” which killed Iran’s Supreme Leader yesterday.
The UK has a military personnel across the Middle East working on counter-terrorist missions and embeds with US forces.
No UK troops have been injured in the airstrikes, but there have been several close calls at bases across the region.
Approximately 300 British personnel are based at a US Naval base in Bahrain which was targetted by Iranian missiles yesterday, and came within 200m of a missile and drone strike.
British forces in Iraq, working on counter-Isis operations, were within 400m of an Iranian missile strike.
Two Iranian missiles were fired in the direction of Cyprus, where the UK operates British Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, but Whitehall sources said these were not assessed to be targeted at Cyprus.
British personnel could be withdrawn or moved depending on the threat assessment, sources said, with force protection measures – which the UK does not reveal details of – at their highest level for all troops in the Middle East.
Defence Secretary John Healey said that the Iranian regime was “lashing out in an increasingly indiscriminate and widespread way”.
“People will be really concerned that it’s not just military targets, but civilian airports like Kuwait,” he said.
“Hotels in Dubai and Bahrain are being hit. And so that’s why we’ve strengthened the UK defences in the region. We are active in regional defence operations.”
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