Is Europe being dragged into Trump’s Iran war?

In the wake of an attack on a British military base in Cyprus,
the UK has said it will send an extra warship to the region. Does
this make Britain militarily involved in America and Israel’s war
against Iran? Or was that already true after Prime Minister Keir
Starmer allowed Donald Trump to use British bases? Venetia and
Roland discuss Europe’s growing involvement in the conflict and
the countries that are resisting. 


Iranian-British journalist Nazenin Ansari talks about why she is
pro-regime change but doesn’t want this war, the brutality of the
IRGC, and how Khamenei’s son Mojtaba would be just more of the
same if picked as his successor. 


Plus, senior foreign correspondent Sophia Yan sends a dispatch
from the Turkish-Iranian border where she has been speaking to
fleeing Iranians, and Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO’s Regional Director
for the Eastern Mediterranean, explains how the UN’s health body
prepared for the conflict. 


Read Sophia Yan’s analysis of why China is unfazed by the
war: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/04/why-china-is-unfazed-by-donald-trump-epic-fury/


Read Tom Cotterill on why this could be the Royal Navy’s biggest
humiliation: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/03/is-this-the-royal-navys-biggest-humiliation/


Read our visual journalism deep dive on how Trump sank the
Iranian
navy: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/03/how-trump-sank-iranian-navy/


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