{"id":324425,"date":"2026-03-09T07:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324425"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:07:53","slug":"iran-didnt-plot-cyprus-base-attack-tehran-accuses-israel-of-false-flag-ops-in-saudi-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324425","title":{"rendered":"Iran Didn\u2019t Plot Cyprus Base Attack, Tehran Accuses Israel of \u2018False Flag\u2019 Ops. in Saudi, UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Defend Democracy Press \u2013 March 5, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The British Defence Ministry has said that a drone that targeted its air base \u2060of Akrotiri in Cyprus was not launched from Iran. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer refused to allow the Americans to use UK air bases to launch the initial strikes on Iran. He later agreed to a US request to use bases in southwest England and the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean for a \u201cspecific and limited defensive purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fMrZQ9euGF8?si=Lcfm8pFdPQdzjwoP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenddemocracy.press\/iran-didnt-plot-cyprus-base-attack-tehran-accuses-israel-of-false-flag-ops-in-saudi-uae\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Shahed-type\u2019 drone had hit a runway of the air base, in the first attack on the military facility in Cyprus since 1986. The UK Defence Ministry said on March 3 that RAF F-35 jets flying over Jordan shot down what it claimed at the time was an Iranian drone.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Iran has accused Israel of carrying out a drone attack on facilities belonging to Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco, describing it as a \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation. The Iranian official cited by Tasnim also claimed that Tehran has intelligence that Israel will conduct a similar operation at UAE\u2019s Fujairah port.<\/p>\n<h4>Also see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenddemocracy.press\/87253-2\/\">They Want to Bring NATO into the War Against Iran via Cyprus and Greece<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenddemocracy.press\/iran-didnt-plot-cyprus-base-attack-tehran-accuses-israel-of-false-flag-ops-in-saudi-uae\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Ministry of Defence says the drone that struck the RAF base of Akrotiri in Cyprus was not launched from Iran. While Tehran has accused Israel of launching false flag drone attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and UAE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,58,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-flag-attacks","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324426,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324425\/revisions\/324426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}