Iran Didn’t Plot Cyprus Base Attack, Tehran Accuses Israel of ‘False Flag’ Ops. in Saudi, UAE

Mar 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.

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