Sovereignty Support Movement Sovereignty for West Asia
News from Defend Democracy Press, March 5, 2026
The British Defence Ministry has said that a drone that targeted its air base of 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 “specific and limited defensive purpose.”
The ‘Shahed-type’ 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.
Meanwhile, Iran has accused Israel of carrying out a drone attack on facilities belonging to Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco, describing it as a “false flag” operation. The Iranian official cited by Tasnim also claimed that Tehran has intelligence that Israel will conduct a similar operation at UAE’s Fujairah port.
Editor’s Note: Yes, the video has AI content. It is apparent, not hidden; the crucial comments are, as far as I can tell, accurate though some of the imagery is pretty dramatic (though static). Anyway, it is paired with another longer article above from this excellent site in Greece where they are too close to the war for comfort. One may note that it pairs the attacks on Aramco (apparently pretty minor, but the target is too important to ignore) with the one on Cyprus which is pretty credible as a false flag, thereby substantiating the claim that the attacks on Aramco are, as the Iranians insist, false flags from Israel.
