{"id":79328,"date":"2026-02-20T01:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/trump-changed-mind-on-chagos-deal-after-uk-blocked-use-of-diego-garcia-for-iran-strikes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:00:37","slug":"trump-changed-mind-on-chagos-deal-after-uk-blocked-use-of-diego-garcia-for-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/trump-changed-mind-on-chagos-deal-after-uk-blocked-use-of-diego-garcia-for-iran-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump changed mind on Chagos deal \u2018after UK blocked use of Diego Garcia for Iran strikes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8b55a7921c5b3a410b8b57a9ec78887266a01d55\/20_0_1161_928\/master\/1161.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=96a1f391b0af743fd4aa4646e73572c3\" alt=\"Trump changed mind on Chagos deal \u2018after UK blocked use of Diego Garcia for Iran strikes\u2019\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Trump changed mind on Chagos deal \u2018after UK blocked use of Diego Garcia for Iran strikes\u2019<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">US president links deal with military strikes against Iran in connection with Tehran\u2019s nuclear ambitionsDonald Trump changed his mind on supporting the Chagos Islands deal because the UK will not permit its airbases to be used for a pre-emptive US strike on Iran, the Guardian has been told.In his latest change of heart on the deal, the US president said on social media that Keir Starmer was \u201cmaking a big mistake\u201d by handing sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius in exchange for continued use by the UK and US of their airbase on one of the islands, Diego Garcia. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/19\/donald-trump-turns-against-uk-chagos-islands-plan-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Trump changed mind on Chagos deal \u2018after UK blocked use of Diego Garcia for Iran strikes\u2019 US president links deal with military strikes against Iran in connection with Tehran\u2019s nuclear ambitionsDonald Trump changed his mind on supporting the Chagos Islands deal because the UK will not permit its airbases to be used for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":79329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}