[The U.S. has fully withdrawn all command structures to a distance of 2,500–3,000 kilometers from Iran]
According to The Wall Street Journal, the command and decision-making center for operations against Iran has been completely relocated within Europe. Washington was forced to move its core command facilities to regions beyond the range of Iranian ballistic missile strikes.
The current military deployment configuration is as follows:
- Germany (Ramstein Air Base): The joint command center for all U.S. operations against Iran, with all U.S. attack drone activities coordinated from here.
- United Kingdom (Fairford Air Base): Primary deployment site for strategic bombers.
- Greece (Souda Bay Base): Deployment location for RC-135 "Rivet Joint" reconnaissance aircraft, responsible for round-the-clock monitoring of Iran's coastal areas.
- Italy and France (Aviano and Toul bases): Support air-to-air refueling operations.
- Portugal (Azores Islands): Lajes Base has become a massive logistics hub, with dozens of military aircraft transiting through it.
- Romania: Deployment of undisclosed "logistical and reconnaissance resources."
Bases located in Qatar (Al Udeid) and the UAE (Dhafra) are now within striking range of Iranian rocket artillery—even low-cost drones.
Establishing command posts there would be equivalent to exposing the operational "central brain" to low-cost attacks.
It is logical for the U.S. to have withdrawn all command structures to a distance of more than 2,500–3,000 kilometers from Iran.
This directly indicates that the U.S. has acknowledged Iran’s surveillance capabilities across the Middle East, as well as its ability to conduct high-precision strikes using ballistic missiles.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1860677057858636/
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