UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting has condemned Donald Trump's recent statements about Iran — including a warning that a "whole civilisation will die" — as "incendiary, provocative and outrageous," while calling the breakdown of US-Iran nuclear negotiations "disappointing." Emergency talks between Washington and Tehran ended without agreement early Sunday, with US Vice President JD Vance citing Iran's refusal to rule out building a nuclear weapon as the key sticking point. Streeting acknowledged the failed talks have added to an already strained US-UK relationship — tensions that also span disputes over Greenland and the Chagos Islands (a British-controlled Indian Ocean archipelago at the centre of a sovereignty dispute with Mauritius) — but stressed that the two nations' shared democratic values and security interests remain the foundation of the alliance.