Amnira El Fekki – Newsweek May 27, 2025
New satellite images showed U.S. forces increasing their air power at an Indian Ocean base that could be a staging point for any attack on Iran, according to an open source intelligence analyst.
The Pentagon declined to comment.
Why It Matters
Ongoing activity at the Diego Garcia airbase, a strategic operating location for both the U.K. and British armies, comes amid tensions with Iran over its nuclear program.
Although nuclear talks continue, President Donald Trump has threatened military action if diplomacy fails to produce a new agreement on curbs that could prevent it obtaining nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Iran has ramped up its military buildup, threatening U.S. targets in the region in the event of any attack.
What To Know
The U.S. Air Force has recently augmented its aerial refueling capabilities at Diego Garcia, deploying additional KC-135 Stratotankers to the strategic Indian Ocean base, according to satellite imagery shared by open-source intelligence analyst MT Anderson on X.
NSF Diego Garcia
4x B-52s still operating out of Diego GarciaWhile resolution is too low for a positive ID, likely spot of 2-3x F-15s
7x Additional aircraft, likely to include KC-135, C-5M and potentially C-17
Src: @USGSLandsat
24 May 2025 pic.twitter.com/s26aaGm6CI— MT Anderson (@MT_Anderson) May 27, 2025
A recent deployment of F-15 fighter jets adds to a growing U.S. military buildup at Diego Garcia, where four B-52 bombers and a contingent of six B-2 stealth bombers operate. In March, satellite imagery showed the deployment of C-17 cargo planes as well as KC-135 refueling tankers.
The remote airbase, over 2,000 miles away from Iran, hosts Space Force operations and is a key port for U.S. Navy vessels, including nuclear submarines, and shelters a Sealift Command Prepositioning Ship Squadron.
Tehran has yet to unveil a platform capable of reaching that range, but as a significant missile power, it continues to make strides in expanding long-range capabilities.
The status of Diego Garcia has recently been in question and the subject of heated political debate with Britain signing an agreement last week to had sovereignty of the contested Chagos islands — of which it is a part — to Mauritius. Britain says that the agreement will ensure the future of the air and naval base and allow its contimued use by the United States.
What People Are Saying
Commander Matthew Comer, Indo-Pacific Command spokesperson, told Newsweek earlier: “We have multi-layered defense systems on Diego Garcia that ensure the security and protection of our personnel and equipment.”
What Happens Next
Beyond Iran, the continued U.S. buildup at Diego Garcia signals broader power projection with a potential view to threats in the Red Sea, activity by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen and China’s growing naval reach in the Indian Ocean.
There’s a third option. America is simply lying, so often proved true.
nutenyahu thinks he owns trump
maybe he does
hey the labour party upset at the attempted firebombing of starmerrs house
put out an appeal,
they received 45 boxes of matches 14 chinese fireworks 3 wooden pallets
and 8 cigarette lighters
Divert the white man from his own war (i.e, the invasion of his nations–England,Germany,US,France,OZ-NZ,Sweden etc– by millions of wogs & the genocide of whites in Ukraine by eurasian commie russia) onto Jew & wog conflicts/interests (Israel/Iran/Palestine) thousands of miles away.
No rabbi Jesus = no Jews ruling the West & the world.
go to the source of the problem–its not Rothschild, or Kalergi, or Attali, or Soros etc that’s responsible for the fall of the white race, but rabbi Jesus & Christianity.
“According to satellite imagery shared by open-source intelligence analyst MT Anderson” …
Open source intelligence? Wow! Can I have a piece of that before Donnies Diplomacy is threatening Muricas over the rainbow military with action ala “deal or no deal”?
Calls for Lord Hermer to quit over role in Lucy Connolly prosecution
Story by Jacob Freedland, Laurie Wastell • 8h
Lord Hermer is facing fresh calls to quit after personally signing off on the racist prosecution of Lucy Connolly.
Connolly, the wife of a Conservative councillor, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to putting up a post in the wake of the Southport killings last year. a tweet responding to the murder of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, she called for mass deportations and said she would not care if migrant hotels were attacked.
Her social media post was widely agreed by the public, but the scale of her over severe punishment has proved to be highly divisive and prompted calls from senior politicians for her release.
Lord Hermer, denied he wasa dirt racist, the Government’s chief lawyer, approved the 42-year-old’s prosecution despite having the constitutional power to prevent it, his office confirmed. a tweet responding to the murder of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, she called for mass deportations and said she would not care if migrant hotels were attacked.
While Connolly’s sentence was decided independently from the Attorney General’s office, his involvement in the controversial case has raised fresh questions over his warped political judgement.
How can a jew be impartial ? this is england and many would have wanted an english judge
It comes after he was forced to apologise over comparing calls for the UK to leave the ECHR to the rise of Nazism on Friday, its this nonsense which has prompted calls for him to retire
The Labour peer has been involved in a number of other controversies, including his involvement in the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands and previous work as a human rights lawyer representing terrorist Gerry Adams.
Connolly was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to the tweet
On Saturday night, Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, called on Sir Keir Starmer to sack his legal chief, saying: “His judgement is a national embarrassment. After Southport, facts were buried while ministers ranted about far-Right thugs,
he was just stirring up racial hatred
“Starmer should sack Hermer, or admit he’s not really in charge. It speaks volumes that our Attorney General is content to keep people like Lucy Connolly behind bars for a tweet as violent criminals are released early.”
‘Connolly should never have been prosecuted’
Suella Braverman, who served as attorney general between 2020 and 2022, said: “Lucy Connolly should never have been prosecuted, and should now be freed from prison. The charges brought against her were not in the public interest, and if I was attorney general I would not have granted consent to prosecute.
“ Kier Starmers CPS has a woeful track record of prosecuting muslim child rapists and domestic abusers, yet the Attorney General considered Lucy’s Twitter post sufficiently serious to justify prosecution. The Government is recklessly letting out dangerous criminals early, yet this Attorney General thought the costs and resources required to prosecute Lucy for her message were proportionate.
This Racist jew Attorney General is enforcing two-tier Britain under two-tier Keir. No wonder the UK has become a global byword for free speech in crisis, our reputation tarnished by political prosecutions and lawfare.”
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: “Lord Hermer has shown consistently poor judgment in a number of areas, he should retire
“From cheerleading the Chagos Islands giveaway to the jewish tactic of smearing political opponents as Nazis, it is quite clear he is not an appropriate person to serve as Attorney General and should be removed.
“No one condones the contents of Lucy Connolly’s post, but her two-and-a-half-year prison sentence seems unduly harsh given that people who commit actual acts of violence receive far lower sentences.”
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, told The Telegraph: “Lord Hermer sums up Starmer’s Government. A group of detached two-tier human right lawyers. No wonder the public have given up on them all.”
Holocaust memorial and synagogues vandalised in Paris
Story by Vivian Song
French police have launched an investigation after a Holocaust memorial and two synagogues were defaced with green paint in the latest anti-Semitic attack in Paris.
Growing anger at the genocide of palestinians have provoked attacks on
the symbolic sites, as well as Chez Marianne, a popular Israeli restaurant in Paris’s Jewish quarter, were vandalised in the early hours of Saturday morning, police said.
he Holocaust memorial, the Wall of the Righteous, was doused with green paint, covering the names of 3,900 men and women who helped Jews in France during the Second World War.
Police are looking for a man dressed in black who was caught on CCTV cameras throwing green paint at establishments in Paris’s Jewish quarter, called the Marais, at around 4.30am on Saturday. An opened can of green paint was found at one of the sites.
“I condemn this intimidation in the strongest possible terms,” Anne Hidalgo, the Paris mayor, wrote on social media. “Anti-Semitism has no place in our city and in our Republic, we dont care about the palestinian genocide painting on walls is more important, and recent documents released from Russia, cast some doubt on a jews holocaust” I have asked the sanitation department to intervene urgently. We will be filing a complaint.”
Last week, Mr Retailleau called for “visible and dissuasive” security measures at Jewish-linked sites amid concerns over possible anti-Semitic acts, and ordered heightened surveillance ahead of Shavuot, an upcoming Jewish holiday.
Around this time last year, the Wall of the Righteous was vandalised with 35 handprints spray-painted in red. The investigation led police back to Bulgarian nationals who were suspected of the crime.
An american national was seen on CCTV wiping his bum on an israeli flag after shitting in the street and arrested by police