Did Iran fire missiles at British air base in Cyprus? As video goes viral, UK Defence Secretary says...

Britain's Defence Secretary John Healey said Sunday that "Iranian indiscriminate retaliatory attacks" in response to US-Israeli strikes. He added that the attacks included "two ballistic missiles fired in the direction of Cyprus", though the government was "pretty sure" they were not intentionally targeting the bases.

Healey said these attacks demonstrated how British military personnel and civilians were "at risk with a regime that is increasingly indiscriminate, widespread and uncontrolled in the attacks it is mounting".

His statement came as a video emerged on social media, purportedly capturing activity in the sky near RAF Akrotiri.

"We had two ballistic missiles fired in the direction of Cyprus," Healey told the BBC. He said the UK warplanes were involved in "defensive" actions in the region, operating from the UK's airbase on the island and from a base in Qatar.

"Now we are pretty sure they weren't targeted at Cyprus, but nevertheless it demonstrates how our bases, our personnel, military and civilians at the moment are at risk," he was quoted as saying by AFP, without providing further details about the missiles and any interception of them.

A Cypriot government spokesman later said Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer had "clearly confirmed that Cyprus was not a target" during a telephone call with the country's president, Nikos Christodoulides, the BBC reported.

What else did John Healey claim?

On Sunday, an RAF Typhoon jet operating out of Qatar shot down an Iranian drone in a "defensive air patrol", the Ministry of Defence said.

Healey said the previously undisclosed missile incidents pointed to "a really serious and deteriorating situation" in the Middle East.

"It's an example of how there is a very real and rising threat from a regime that is lashing out widely across the region, and that requires us to act. It requires us to act defensively," Healey told Sky News in a separate interview Sunday.

"Alongside the Americans, we've stepped up our defensive forces in the Middle East. We're flying those sorties. We're taking down the drones that are menacing either our bases, our people or our allies," Healey said.

Healey also told the BBC that "no one will mourn" Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. US and Israeli air strikes on Iran killed Khamenei.

Healey also claimed in the interview that since the strikes had begun, British military personnel in Bahrain had been "within several hundred yards" of a retaliatory missile and drone strike on Saturday, while two missiles had been fired in the direction of Cyprus.

"In that Bahrain military base that was hit by missiles and drones yesterday, we had 300 British personnel, some within several hundred yards of the strike," Healey told the BBC.

He clarified that the UK did not participate in the strikes and that it was for the US to set out the legal basis for its actions.

When asked if the UK backed the US-Israeli strikes on Iran or thought they were legal, Healey said while the UK had not taken part in the strikes, "we share, however, the primary aim of all allies in the region and the US that Iran should never have a nuclear weapon".

(With inputs from BBC)