{"id":322330,"date":"2026-03-02T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:00:53","slug":"keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ywx9Gd6G7x8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ywx9Gd6G7x8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer said he stood by his judgment not to support initial joint US-Israeli strikes against Iran after Donald Trump criticised his approach. The US president said Starmer was taking \u2018too long\u2019 to allow US use of airbases. The prime minister said the decision had been made now to allow the US military to use British bases to strike storage depots and for a \u2018limited defensive purpose\u2019. Starmer said he believed the killing of Iran&#8217;s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, had led Iran to strike military and economic targets in a more \u2018reckless\u2019 manner in the region<br \/>\n US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 live updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer said he stood by his judgment not to support initial joint US-Israeli strikes against Iran after Donald Trump criticised his approach. The US president said Starmer was taking \u2018too long\u2019 to allow US use of airbases. The prime minister said the decision had been made now to allow the US military to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":322331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[128931,128933,128932],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-322330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-keir","tag-said","tag-starmer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism | News ISC Videos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Watch Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News ISC Videos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-02T18:00:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ywx9Gd6G7x8\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb\"},\"headline\":\"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-02T18:00:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":115,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/hqdefault-334.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Keir\",\"said\",\"Starmer\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Guardian News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/\",\"name\":\"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism | News ISC Videos\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/hqdefault-334.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-02T18:00:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb\"},\"description\":\"Watch Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/hqdefault-334.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/hqdefault-334.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/\",\"name\":\"News ISC Videos\",\"description\":\"Bringing Global News Videos To You\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tidyhosts.com\\\/videos\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/author\\\/admin-2\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism | News ISC Videos","description":"Watch Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism | News ISC Videos","og_description":"Watch Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/","og_site_name":"News ISC Videos","article_published_time":"2026-03-02T18:00:53+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ywx9Gd6G7x8\/hqdefault.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#\/schema\/person\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb"},"headline":"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism","datePublished":"2026-03-02T18:00:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/"},"wordCount":115,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hqdefault-334.jpg","keywords":["Keir","said","Starmer"],"articleSection":["Guardian News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/","url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/","name":"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism | News ISC Videos","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hqdefault-334.jpg","datePublished":"2026-03-02T18:00:53+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#\/schema\/person\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb"},"description":"Watch Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hqdefault-334.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hqdefault-334.jpg","width":480,"height":360},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-join-us-strikes-after-trump-criticism\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Keir Starmer defends decision not to join US strikes after Trump criticism"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/","name":"News ISC Videos","description":"Bringing Global News Videos To You","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#\/schema\/person\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.tidyhosts.com\/videos"],"url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/author\/admin-2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322330"},{"taxonomy":"actors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors?post=322330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}