AFP — Britain is sending short-range air defence systems to the Gulf to help counter Iranian missile attacks, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday.

“We’re deploying short range air defence systems to Bahrain at speed,” Starmer told a parliamentary committee, adding the UK was “doing the same with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia”.

He called this a “battle-tested ground-based air defence missile system that has already proved highly effective for UK forces taking down drones in the region”.

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