{"id":332918,"date":"2026-11-10T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332918"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:08:49","slug":"us-aircraft-evacuated-from-second-uk-base-due-to-iran-threat-wsj-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332918","title":{"rendered":"US aircraft evacuated from second UK base due to Iran threat, WSJ reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RAF Fairford<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Introduction \u2013 Nov 10, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>This comes at the same time the BBC reports that President Trump says more attacks on Iran are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq5yny4nl2d3o\"><strong>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">highly unlikely<\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So on the face of it Trump is hesitant about launching further strikes on Iran. While at the same time the threat from Iran appears to be growing.<\/p>\n<p>There can only be two explanations for this apparent contradiction.<\/p>\n<p>Either the supposed Iranian threat to British air bases hosting U.S. bombers is non-existent, which may explain why those involved in an earlier terror-linked incident at RAF Fairford were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331720\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>released on bail<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Suspects in terrorist incidents are never released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>Or alternatively, Trump is trying to convey the impression that he is having second thoughts about launching strikes on Iran. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/trump-says-mideast-allies-have-reached-outlines-of-deal-to-end-iran-war-says-us-to-stop-new-strikes\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>He has done this before<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, only to go back on his word with further sporadic strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Is Trump trying to lure Iran into dropping its guard? So that he can then follow through with more extensive air strikes?<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>US aircraft evacuated from second UK base due to Iran threat, WSJ reports<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reuters \u2013 Nov 10, 2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The US military evacuated aircraft from a second airbase in Britain on Monday after a threat from Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, weeks after a suspected Iran-linked security incident at the RAF Fairford airbase led to the withdrawal of\u00a0US bombers.<\/p>\n<p>Two US\u00a0refueling tankers that were using the RAF Mildenhall military base\u00a0diverted to Germany earlier in the morning, while several other tankers at the base were moved to Germany and other locations later in the day, the WSJ report said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Journal, the precise nature of the threat to RAF Mildenhall remains under discussion among US officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not routinely comment on the activity of other nations. Aircraft and other assets move regularly according to operational requirements,\u201d a British ministry of defense spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Five British men were arrested outside the RAF Fairford base in southwest England in September, prompting the US to\u00a0remove its B-1 bombers from that airbase shortly after on security grounds.<\/p>\n<p>RAF Fairford had been used by US bombers to carry out strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/news\/us-aircraft-evacuated-from-second-uk-base-due-to-iran-threat-wsj-reports\/ar-AA2h6VFP?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Trump trying to lure Iran into dropping its guard so he can launch more extensive strikes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":321329,"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":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332918","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=332918"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332925,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332918\/revisions\/332925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}