'I've been warning all the time. They now have the capacity to reach deep into Europe. They have already fired on a European country, Cyprus.'

A UK government minister has said he is ‘not aware of any assessment at all’ that Iran could strike the UK,after Israel warned London was within the country’s missile range.

'We are monitoring your cowardly officials and commanders.'

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israel will not strike Iran’s South Pars gas field again unless Tehran retaliates (Picture: Anadolu via Getty Images)

Images were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, which was meant to be observing a different comet

The Ministry of Defence said there were no UK casualties and no damage to UK assets at Al Minhad Air Base,which hosts a permanent RAF facility after it was struck.