Defence Secretary John Healey Won't Say If The UK Backs US And Israeli Strikes On Iran

Rescuers search through the rubble of a collapsed building at the site of a strike on a neighbourhood in Tehran.

John Healey has refused to say whether the UK government backs the US and Israeli bombing of Iran which killed the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The defence secretary would only confirm that Britain “played no part” in the military action.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard confirmed in the early hours of Sunday that Khamenei had died, and said...