MEXICO CITY.—The US and Israeli attacks on Iran which began last Saturday targeting its military capabilities, its political leadership and its nuclear program.
The supreme leader of Iran, the recited Ali Khameneiwas killed on Saturday, at the beginning of the war.
So far, the US and Israeli attacks do not have the unconditional support that US President Donald Trump expected from Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain.
This Thursday, the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloniassured that Italia “it is not at war” He does not want to “enter into it” and has recalled that if a request comes for the use of US bases in Italian territory in war actions, the Parliament will have to be consulted, he declared during an interview with an Italian radio station.
The United States has eight military bases in Italy with about 34,000 military personnel stationed there. According to the president’s statements, the military bodies, if approved by Parliament, could be used for logistical use, not for war actions.
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According to an article by Íñigo Domínguez, published by the Spanish newspaper El País, he reported that Giorgia Meloni announced that Italy plans to send military aid to the Gulf countries to reinforce their anti-aircraft defense, “as the United Kingdom, France and Germany (have done).” “Not only because they are friendly nations, but because in that area there are tens of thousands of Italians and 2,000 soldiers who we have to protect. And the Gulf is vital for supplies,” the president said.
Regarding the US bases, the prime minister took Spain’s position as an example: “It seems to me that everyone is adhering to the bilateral agreements. The Spanish spokesperson herself declared yesterday that there is a bilateral agreement and that outside of that agreement there will be no use of the bases. It also applies to us,” according to the El País publication.
Tension between the US and Great Britain
He prime minister of the united kingdom, Keir Starmer initially banned US planes from using British bases for strikes against Iran that began Saturday. He later agreed to allow the United States to use bases in England and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to attack Iran’s ballistic missiles and their storage sites, but not to hit other targets.
Even after the British base at Akrotiri, in Cypruswas hit by an Iranian-made drone over the weekend, Starmer said the The United Kingdom “will not join in offensive action”. He announced on Tuesday that a Royal Navy destroyerhe HMS Dragonand helicopters with anti-drone capabilities as part of “defensive operations”.
Implicit rebuke of Trump
The British leader offered a implicit rebuke to Trump saying on Monday that the UK government does not believe in a “regime change from the heavens”.
“Any UK action must always have a legal basis and a viable, well-thought-out plan,” Starmer told lawmakers in the House of Commons on Monday.
“President Trump has expressed his disagreement with our decision not to get involved in the initial attacks, but it is my duty to judge what is in Britain’s national interest,” Starmer added.
Friction between the two leaders has been increasing for months. The Trump threatens to take over Greenland was reported by Starmer and other European leaders earlier this year. Recently, Trump has condemned Britain’s agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands, where the Diego Garcia base is located, to Mauritius, even though his administration had previously backed the pact.
Peter Ricketts, former head of the UK Foreign Office, told the newspaper The Observer that, under Trump, “Americans have effectively given up any effort to be consistent with international law.”
That’s a red line for Starmer, a law-abiding lawyer and former chief prosecutor for England and Wales.
Starmer keeps a “cool head”
cabinet minister James Murray He noted that Starmer acted with a “cool head” and maintained that the United Kingdom’s relationship with the United States remains “historic, long-lasting and deep.”
But political adversaries and media critics say Starmer is sidelining Britain at a critical time, even after an Iranian-made drone hit a British air force base in Cyprus, causing no injuries. The right-leaning Daily Mail proclaimed: “Starmer takes the ‘Great’ from Britain.”
Spain says “No to war”
Yesterday Wednesday, the president of the government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejónagain criticized the military actions of the United States and Israel in Iranstood firm against the new trade threats from Washington and warned that the war in the middle east posed the risk of “play Russian roulette” with millions of lives.
“We are not going to be complicit in something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply out of fear of reprisals from someone,” Sánchez said in a televised speech.
The US threatens Spain with an end to trade
He President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday with put an end al United States trade with Spain due to the Madrid’s refusal to allow The United States uses joint military bases in the country for their attacks against Iran.— (With information from EFE and AP).
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