Could the UK follow the US into a war with Iran?

Iranian missile strike hits Iraqi military bases housing US and British personnel

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(Image credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Iran has fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at Iraqi military bases housing American and British forces as tensions escalate following the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani last week.

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