On 2nd March this year, an Iranian Shahed drone struck an aircraft hangar at RAF Akrotiri causing minor damage. The Iranian regime identified Akrotiri besides its sister RAF station Dhekelia and a host of other scattered facilities across the island, which are on British sovereign territory granted under the independence arrangements of 1960, as a military risk. They are right. Our bases have proved a crucial asset in nearly every post-Second Wo…
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