An Iranian man and a Romanian woman have been charged after attempting to enter Britain’s Faslane nuclear naval base.
The 34-year-old man and a female 31, were in a vehicle when approaching a gate at HM Naval Base Clyde in Scotland.
The pair lacked the right passes to enter and were turned away, it has been reported – before being detained after ‘acting suspiciously in the vicinity’.
The Faslane naval base is the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland and is home to Britain’s nuclear submarines including the Vanguard vessels armed with Trident missiles
A 34-year-old suspect, and a female, 31, were in a vehicle when approaching a gate at HM Naval Base Clyde in Scotland
They are now due to appear at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Monday, March 23.
The naval base is the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland and is home to Britain’s nuclear submarines including the Vanguard vessels armed with Trident missiles.
Police Scotland announced the pair had been arrested and charged as Iran escalated tensions by firing two ballistic missiles at a joint US-UK military base in the Indian Ocean just hours after Keir Starmer gave the green light for Donald Trump to use UK-based bombers threatening the Straits of Hormuz.
The move prompted Tehran to warn the Prime Minister he had placed British lives ‘in danger’ by consenting to Trump’s request to use B-52s and other aircraft flying out of RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia to blast Iranian missile sites in the strategically important waterway.
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi swiftly asserted that Iran would ‘exercise its right to self-defence’ if the UK joined US operations.
Posting on X, he said: ‘Vast majority of the British People do not want any part in the Israel-US war of choice on Iran. Ignoring his own People, Mr Starmer is putting British lives in danger by allowing UK bases to be used for aggression against Iran.’
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