UK cautiously backs Trump while calling for calm over Iran attack

Boris Johnson urges de-escalation but adds Qasem Soleimani was ‘a threat to all our interests’

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Iranian women hold up an image of Qassem Suleimani
(Image credit: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)

The British government has called for calm in the wake of the US’s controversial decision to assassinate Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, a move that has thrown the Middle East into turmoil.

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