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U.S. Military Withdraws From Another Base Over Fears of Drone Attack by Iran

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U.S. Military Withdraws From Another Base Over Fears of Drone Attack by Iran

The U.S. has withdrawn 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from a British military base over concerns that it might be attacked with drones by Iran, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. It’s just the latest example of U.S. forces withdrawing from military bases overseas because it fears Iran will hit back during the war started by President Donald Trump in February.

The potential attack was part of a “multifaceted Iranian plot” to kill some of the several hundred U.S. personnel at RAF Fairford in the UK, according to the Journal. Vice President JD Vance described the plot as “terrorism,” while speaking to reporters on a trip to Alaska on Monday.

“We do feel with some confidence that the Iranians are trying to do what the Iranian state has done for 49 years, which is engage in acts of terrorism against the United States and against a lot of other people as well,” Vance told reporters, emphasizing that the move was just the U.S. being “cautious.”

Strikes against military bases during a time of war are generally not considered “terrorism,” under international law, with that term reserved for attacks against non-military targets like schools and weddings. S. bombed a school in Iran at the start of the war, killing at least 156 people, 120 of them children, according to NPR . S. also struck a wedding party last month, killing at least four people and wounding at least 68, according to Reuters .



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