{"id":96614,"date":"2026-03-08T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/cooper-rejects-blairs-call-for-uk-to-have-backed-trumps-strikes-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:00:50","slug":"cooper-rejects-blairs-call-for-uk-to-have-backed-trumps-strikes-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/cooper-rejects-blairs-call-for-uk-to-have-backed-trumps-strikes-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper rejects Blair\u2019s call for UK to have backed Trump\u2019s strikes 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\/e2e9945a67b9209067b1e130ab9c704920c076eb\/209_0_2581_2066\/master\/2581.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=b6abf07d4c4378cda77fc97a74ff04bd\" alt=\"Cooper rejects Blair\u2019s call for UK to have backed Trump\u2019s strikes 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\">Cooper rejects Blair\u2019s call for UK to have backed Trump\u2019s strikes on Iran<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Foreign secretary hits back at former prime minister, saying Britain had to \u2018learn the lessons\u2019 of Iraq warMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesYvette Cooper has rejected Tony Blair\u2019s assertion that the UK should have supported Donald Trump\u2019s initial airstrikes on Iran, saying Britain had to \u201clearn the lessons\u201d of mistakes made in Iraq.At a private lunch event on Friday, the former Labour prime minister said Keir Starmer \u201cshould have backed America from the very beginning\u201d and let the Trump administration use British airbases, adding: \u201cIf they are your ally and they are an indispensable cornerstone for your security \u2026 you had better show up when they want you to.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/mar\/08\/yvette-cooper-rejects-tony-blair-call-for-uk-to-have-backed-trump-strikes-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 Cooper rejects Blair\u2019s call for UK to have backed Trump\u2019s strikes on Iran Foreign secretary hits back at former prime minister, saying Britain had to \u2018learn the lessons\u2019 of Iraq warMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesYvette Cooper has rejected Tony Blair\u2019s assertion that the UK should have supported Donald Trump\u2019s initial airstrikes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":96615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96614","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\/96614","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=96614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}