23 Nov 2024
Tuesday 7 January 2020 - 15:34
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UK would not back US bombing of Iranian cultural sites – No 10

The Guardian - Downing Street says such military action would break international treaties in implicit rebuke to Trump

Britain’s foreign secretary has said that targeting cultural sites in Iran would breach international warfare conventions in an implicit rebuke to Donald Trump for threatening to bomb protected heritage sites.

Dominic Raab did not criticise the US president directly over his threats, but said: “We have been very clear that cultural sites are protected under international law and we would expect that to be respected.”

The senior British minister was speaking after Trump said he could target 52 Iranian sites if Iran retaliated over the assassination of Qassem Suleimani – “some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture”.

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