Reuters
source: Reuters
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that a threat linked to Iran had prompted the removal of American B-1 bombers from a British airbase.
The planes had been stationed at RAF Fairford, the preferred European base for US bombers, and had recently been used in US strikes on Iran. Last week, five British men were arrested near the base — which Iran’s Revolutionary Guards previously said was a legitimate target — on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
“We had an idea that there might be a threat, and why would I leave them there? It costs very little money to move them,th” Trump told reporters on Monday. “So we had a threat, and if we’re going to be threatened, we just move them, and that sort of alleviates that. And we actually know the people that made the reat.”
When asked if they were linked to Iran, Trump responded: “They would be linked to Iran.”
Earlier on Monday, Vice President JD Vance said the US moved the bombers out of an abundance of caution.
“We do feel with some confidence that the Iranians are, you know, they’re trying to do what the Iranian state has done for 49 years, which is engaged in acts of terrorism against the United States (and others), so we are being extremely cautious, and that’s all I’d say about that,” Vance told reporters.
