US-Israelische Militär-Intervention im Iran

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Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien stehen vor dem Kriegseintritt:

Gemeinsame Erklärung der Staats- und Regierungschefs der E3

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Angriffe des Iran „wahllos und unverhältnismäßig“

Die Staats- und Regierungschefs von Deutschland, Frankreich und des Vereinigten Königreichs haben die Raketenangriffe des Iran auf Länder der Region verurteilt und militärische Abwehrmaßnahmen angedroht. Die Angriffe des Iran seien „wahllos und unverhältnismäßig“, heißt es in einer gemeinsamen Mitteilung.

„Wir fordern den Iran auf, seine rücksichtslosen Angriffe unverzüglich einzustellen“, erklären die Staats- und Regierungschefs.

„Wir werden die notwendigen Maßnahmen ergreifen, um unsere Interessen und die unserer Verbündeten in der Region zu verteidigen. Das kann potenziell auch, falls notwendig, das Ermöglichen von verhältnismäßigen militärischen Defensivmaßnahmen einschließen, um die Fähigkeit des Iran, Raketen und Drohnen abzufeuern, an der Quelle zu zerstören.“ Dazu werde man auch mit den USA und den Verbündeten in der Region zusammenarbeiten.

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4m ago 22.15 CET
Keir Starmer has said he’s accepted the US request to use British bases for defensive strikes against Iranian missiles

In a video shared on social media the Prime Minster said: “Our partners in the Gulf have asked us to do more to defend them, and it’s my duty to protect British lives.

“We have British jets in the air as part of coordinated defensive operations which have already successfully intercepted Iranian strikes.

“But the only way to stop the threat is to destroy the missiles at source. In their storage depots or the launchers which are used to fire the missiles. The US has requested permission to use British bases for that specific and limited defensive purpose.

“We have taken the decision to accept this request - to prevent Iran firing missiles across the region, killing innocent civilians, putting British lives at risk and hitting countries that have not been involved.”

Updated at
22.16 CET

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Wenn man nach diesen von CNN veröffentlichten Aufnahmen geht, scheint eher das Gelände eines an die Basis angrenzenden Futtermittellagers getroffen worden zu sein:

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Ich lag gar nicht so sehr daneben. Aber die NSA Bahrain wurde tatsächlich getroffen - insbesondere eine Anlage zur Satellitenkommunikation:


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The MoD said the armed forces were responding to the attack at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus at around midnight local time (22:00 GMT). The BBC understands there were no casualties in the suspected strike.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2r0q310e3o

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17 min ago

Britain grants U.S. permission to use military bases for strikes

Greg Miller

LONDON — In a reversal, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government has granted U.S. forces permission to use bases in the United Kingdom for strikes against Iran.

The about-face, two days after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, means that the Air Force can now fly missions from strategic locations, including Diego Garcia, a British air base in the Indian Ocean with long runways used by American B-52 bombers and other military aircraft.

Starmer said the U.K. accepted a U.S. request for use of British air bases “to prevent Iran firing missiles across the region, killing innocent civilians, putting British lives at risk and hitting countries that have not been involved.”

He also said British jets joined the conflict in a limited defensive role and “already successfully intercepted Iranian strikes.”

The British Defense Ministry confirmed Monday that its forces responded to a suspected drone strike at the Royal Air Force’s Akrotiri base in Cyprus.

Starmer and other European leaders initially emphasized that their militaries were not involved in the U.S.-Israeli operation. In a statement Sunday, he seemed to acknowledge that the stance was shaped by regret over taking part in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

“We all remember the mistakes of Iraq,” Starmer said. “And we have learned those lessons.”

Still, he cited concern that Britain has at least 300,000 citizens in the region surrounding Iran and that granting U.S. permission to use RAF facilities was done “in accordance with international law.”

While providing an update on the war to Parliament on Monday, Starmer sought to draw narrow distinctions of the nation’s role in the conflict. He said British bases could be used only for “defensive” U.S. operations but added that the category includes strikes on Iranian missile sites being used to attack British positions and allies.

British jets were also carrying out missions, Starmer said, and had intercepted Iranian drones heading toward a coalition base in Iraq housing U.K. personnel. In a separate attack, he said, an Iranian drone had come within 800 yards of British personnel at an RAF base in Cyprus.

“But it is simply not possible to shoot down every Iranian missile and drone once they are launched,” Starmer said, saying it became necessary to allow U.S. aircraft operating from British bases to target missile sites inside Iran’s borders.

Diego Garcia has been a point of contention between Starmer’s government and President Donald Trump, who has chided Britain over an agreement to restore sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, which include Diego Garcia, to Mauritius.

Starmer acknowledged that Trump has also “expressed his disagreement with our decision not to get involved” in the initial wave of strikes on Iran but said he had concluded it was not “in Britain’s national interests.”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to Press

QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, what do you make of the War Powers resolution that’s being considered here in Congress?

SECRETARY RUBIO: I mean, the Congress votes on those. They can if they want. There’s mechanisms for it, and we’ve complied with the War Powers Act even though we believe it’s unconstitutional, as has every other administration. Every other president has found the War Powers Act to be unconstitutional; nonetheless, we notified the Gang of Eight, which was an appropriate mechanism by which to notify Congress. We sent a notification within 48 hours, the way the law requires. I’m here today to have, I don’t know, my sixth or seventh briefing before the entirety of the House and Senate, which is far more than I ever got from any administration in the time that I was here, certainly when I was a member of the Gang of Eight. And so we’ve complied with all of it. We’ve over-complied with the law and what it requires. This is an action by the President to address a real threat, a real threat. This is hostilities designed to eliminate a threat to the safety and the security of the United States and to our allies.

All right?

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Trump’s letter to Congress justifying the strikes on Iran outlines no imminent threat to the U.S.

President Trump has told Congress he ordered the United States military to carry out sweeping airstrikes on Iran, killing its top leaders and triggering counterattacks across the region, to advance American national interests and eliminate Iran as a global threat, contradicting his administration’s claim that the attack was necessary to respond to an imminent threat.

In a legally mandated, unclassified letter submitted on Monday, Mr. Trump declared that the military operation was designed to “neutralize Iran’s malign activities.” It was sent amid shifting explanations from senior administration officials about the justification for the strikes, calling into question their legality as the House and Senate prepare for votes this week on whether the president needs congressional authorization to use force in Iran.

The letter said the mission targeted Iran’s missile stockpile, nuclear program and navy, aligning with the objectives outlined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Capitol Hill on Monday. And it laid out a sweeping range of strategic goals. The president wrote that the strikes were undertaken to protect the U.S. homeland and forces in the region, and “advance vital United States national interests, including ensuring the free flow of maritime commerce through the Strait of Hormuz.”

The letter made no mention of plans to overthrow the current leadership in Tehran, even though the president called on Iranians to “take over your government” as the United States launched its opening salvo on Saturday morning.

It did echo the rationale put forward by Mr. Rubio on Monday that the United States acted over the weekend because Israel was prepared to strike with or without the Trump administration, and that Iranian counterattacks would target American troops.

The letter said the American-Israeli bombing campaign on Tehran, which killed the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was carried out “in collective self-defense of our regional allies, including Israel.”

But the president on Tuesday rejected the idea that Israel forced his hand in the lead up to the strikes.

“No, I might have forced their hand,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

Mr. Rubio also sought on Tuesday to walk back his own suggestion a day earlier that the strikes had been made to confront the “imminent threat” that an attack by Israel would prompt Iran to target U.S. forces.

Officials with access to U.S. intelligence have said Mr. Trump has exaggerated the immediacy of any threat Iran posed to the United States.

The letter also affirmed that no ground forces were used in the strikes, but suggested that the United States could be engaged in a prolonged military operation against Iran, an outcome that top Trump officials including Mr. Rubio have not ruled out.

“Although the United States desires a quick and enduring peace, it is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary,” the letter stated.

The letter specified that the administration sent it to Congress in an effort to keep lawmakers “fully informed” about the operation, in compliance with the war powers law. The Senate and House are gearing up to vote in the coming days on resolutions that seek to block Mr. Trump from continuing to attack Iran without approval from Congress under that law, but Republicans are expected to block the bills.

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Online ist dieser Bericht nicht auffindbar - zumindest nicht auf offiziellen Kanälen:

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Aber hier:

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Iran strikes U.S. military communication infrastructure in the Mideast.

March 1


Satellite imagery shows smoke rising from a building at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

Iranian strikes conducted over the weekend and on Monday damaged structures that are part of or near communication and radar systems on at least seven U.S. military sites across the Middle East, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos.

Visuals show damage on or close to radar systems used to track incoming ballistic missiles, satellite dishes and radomes, which are weatherproof covers that protect sensitive equipment used by forces to communicate over long distances.

U.S. military communication infrastructure is highly classified, making it difficult to determine which exact systems may have been affected. But the targeted locations appear to indicate Iran was aiming to disrupt the U.S. military’s ability to communicate and coordinate. Iran has attacked the U.S. military’s communication capacity as recently as last June, when it struck a Qatari base it hit again over the weekend.

Strikes potentially affecting these systems also occurred on military facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

A press officer for United States Central Command declined to comment on the strikes.

Bahrain

Video verified by The Times showed that an Iranian one-way attack drone struck a radome on Saturday in the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain. The base is the United States’ primary hub for coordinating naval operations in the Middle East.

Satellite imagery taken of the headquarters the following day showed that at least one additional radome was destroyed.



The two demolished structures were AN/GSC-52B SATCOM terminals, which play a key role in facilitating high-capacity and near real-time communication for the U.S. military.

Qatar

Satellite imagery of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar taken on Sunday afternoon showed that a tent surrounded by satellite dishes had been destroyed and some of the dishes most likely damaged.



Al Udeid is the U.S. military’s largest base in the Middle East, accommodating thousands of troops across an area nearly six miles wide, and serves as the regional headquarters for the United States Central Command. Iran hit a radome the American military used for communications with a ballistic missile at the same base during the 12-day Iran-Israel war last June.

Kuwait

Satellite imagery of Camp Arifjan in Kuwait shows that by Sunday morning at least three radomes had been damaged or destroyed.



Fifty miles northeast, at the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, at least six buildings or structures adjacent to satellite communications infrastructure were damaged or destroyed, according to imagery captured on Sunday.



The same area of the base was hit again, with two additional buildings near the satellite equipment heavily damaged, according to satellite imagery from Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia

On Saturday night, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps announced that the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia had been targeted with missiles and drones. The following morning, satellite imagery captured a mile-long smoke plume rising from a building connected to the site.

Another satellite image captured on Tuesday showed the structure was largely destroyed.



The building that was hit is close to a radome and sits within a fenced-off area roughly six miles east of the main base, indicating Iranians may have been specifically targeting a communications section of the site.

United Arab Emirates

Low-resolution satellite imagery captured of a military installation just outside Al Ruwais in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday shows several structures were damaged.



A radar system known as AN/TPY-2, which is used to detect and track ballistic missiles and is crucial to coordinating missile interception, appears to have been stationed next to one of the buildings that was hit since June of last year. It is unclear from the imagery if the radar system itself was damaged.

The target of a strike over 100 miles east at Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates was less clear. Satellite imagery captured on Sunday shows that tightly clustered buildings and tents within a compound about the size of a football field were heavily damaged. Imagery from previous years shows satellite dishes and antennas at the site, but it’s unclear if they were still there when the strikes occurred over the weekend.



The base was struck again in the same general area, according to satellite imagery captured on Monday.

The Times previously reported that additional American military facilities in Dubai, Iraq and Kuwait were damaged during the weekend strikes, and newly captured satellite imagery shows damage at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. But the structures damaged at these locations don’t appear to be near communications or radar systems.

Bora Erden and Christiaan Triebert contributed reporting. Lily Boyce contributed graphics production.

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