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26.06.26 - 08:48
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Rome Rebukes Rutte: Italy Rejects Claim US Flew Iran War Missions From Its Bases (ZeroHedge)
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Rome Rebukes Rutte: Italy Rejects Claim US Flew Iran War Missions From Its Bases
It's no longer just a Trump-Meloni spat on the level of public rhetoric, but Italy is newly making clear that it is imposing real policy and limitations on the US, now clarifying that it had formally denied US use of its bases to strike Iran for past and future potential missions.
This has been a long time in coming, as Italy already clearly restricted at least some US use of its bases within the past months related to the Iran war, but now it is official.
On Thursday Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani reportedly told his Iranian counterpart by phone he firmly rejects NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte's recent claims that US forces used Italian military bases in operations against Iran.
Tajani has insisted that Italian bases were never used for any kind of offensive strikes on the Islamic Republic. According to US military publication Stripes, "The Iranian foreign minister thanked Italy for...
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25.06.26 - 20:57
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Trump Cuts Off NATO′s Mark Rutte In Oval Office After Sitting Out Iran War (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Cuts Off NATO's Mark Rutte In Oval Office After Sitting Out Iran War
As expected, President Trump took the opportunity to chastise NATO for its lack of participation in the Iran war while hosting the alliance's Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House.
"We didn't need help on this at all. We demolished them in literally the first week," Trump said of Iran before reporters, while seated across from Rutte. That's when the president said, "But it would have been nice if they would have said, 'We'd like to help.' We didn't even need it, but it would have been nice if they said that."
via Associated Press
Throughout the conflict Trump has openly mused about pulling the United States out of the military alliance - or also at least withholding significant defense funding, and suggested in the Wednesday meeting that he'd be discussing the issue with Rutte behind closed doors.
"We're going to be discussing what took place, and we'll see what happens,&quo...
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