IRAN IS NOW REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING STRIKES ON US BASES IN EUROPE🚨🚨🚨 According to the Financial Times, Iranian officials close to the regime have discussed potential strikes on US military facilities in southern and southeastern Europe including locations in Bulgaria and Cyprus. This is a significant escalation in thinking even if no strike has happened yet. Iran has already struck US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan. It violated Qatar's airspace. It threatened Syria. It has been absorbing American strikes for weeks while hitting back across the Gulf region. Now the conversation is reportedly extending to Europe. Bulgaria and Cyprus both host American military facilities and are NATO members. Striking them would be a completely different level of escalation from hitting Gulf bases. It would bring the conflict directly into European territory and trigger Article 5 collective defence discussions across the entire NATO alliance. Whether Iran actually carries this out is a separate question from whether Iran is thinking about it. The fact that senior officials are discussing European targets tells you Iran is calculating how to raise the cost of American escalation beyond what Washington anticipated when it launched this war. Trump threatened to bomb Oman, the country helping mediate a deal. America has been bombing Iran for weeks. Iran is now looking at the map and asking how far this can reach. The European countries hosting American bases signed up for that arrangement during a different strategic moment. None of them were consulted when America decided to go to war with Iran. All of them are now potentially in the conversation about what Iran does next. Britain opened its bases for American strikes. Cyprus and Bulgaria may not have expected to become part of the same equation. This is developing. No strike has happened. But the discussion itself is the news. Share this. Follow AsaliNews for live Iran war coverage as the conflict continues expanding in ways nobody fully predicted. #IranEurope #USIranWar - @panafrican85