{"id":91955,"date":"2026-03-04T01:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/shadow-of-iraq-war-lies-over-westminster-as-mps-consider-us-israeli-attack-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:00:01","slug":"shadow-of-iraq-war-lies-over-westminster-as-mps-consider-us-israeli-attack-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/shadow-of-iraq-war-lies-over-westminster-as-mps-consider-us-israeli-attack-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow of Iraq war lies over Westminster as MPs consider US-Israeli attack on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/043fff656f87e8e7a8b7202111fc7b73c9a2fbea\/125_0_1635_1308\/master\/1635.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=3925899c5ff0a198afd4cff0b3f47131\" alt=\"Shadow of Iraq war lies over Westminster as MPs consider US-Israeli attack on Iran\" 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\">Shadow of Iraq war lies over Westminster as MPs consider US-Israeli attack on Iran<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Despite rebukes from Donald Trump, many MPs back Keir Starmer\u2019s stance so far, and say lessons from conflict in Iraq must not be forgotten Calvin Bailey keeps his Iraq medal, issued to members of the British armed forces who served as part of Operation Telic, safe in a drawer in his home. It features a clasp, given to personnel who were part of the very first wave of flights to leave British bases to invade Iraq in March 2003.So when the Labour MP for Leyton and Wanstead spoke at a meeting between Labour MPs and the prime minister on Monday evening, people listened. \u201cI was exposed to and aware of all the things that were happening in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, the groupthink, the sense of unstoppable momentum,\u201d he said on Tuesday. \u201cIf you look at what is happening right now, it\u2019s materially different to 2003, but<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/mar\/03\/shadow-of-iraq-war-lies-over-westminster-as-mps-consider-us-israeli-attack-on-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 Shadow of Iraq war lies over Westminster as MPs consider US-Israeli attack on Iran Despite rebukes from Donald Trump, many MPs back Keir Starmer\u2019s stance so far, and say lessons from conflict in Iraq must not be forgotten Calvin Bailey keeps his Iraq medal, issued to members of the British armed forces who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":91956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91955","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\/91955","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=91955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}