Israel had warned Britain that Iran was planning an attack on an airbase, AFP reports citing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu, speaking to Fox News late on Wednesday, says Israel tipped off Britain about the plot shortly before Burnham’s government announced sanctions on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on September 8.
“You want to hear how absurd things are there, and how far the anti-Israel propaganda has gone?” Netanyahu says. “We gave the Brits the intel that there was going to be an attack, and it’s an Iranian-sponsored attack. And pretty much the next day, they slapped sanctions on us.”
