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Pentagon email floats suspending Spain from NATO, other steps over Iran rift: Reuters
The memo would punish allies over access and overflight rights, while one option says suspending Spain would have limited military effect but major symbolic impact.
- An internal Pentagon email outlines options to punish NATO allies for failing to support U.S. operations in the Iran war, including suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing U.S. support for the Falkland Islands, a U.S. official told Reuters.
- Pentagon officials expressed frustration that NATO allies failed to grant access, basing, and overflight rights—known as ABO—for the Iran war. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated ABO is 'just the absolute baseline for NATO.'
- One option proposes suspending Spain from prestigious NATO positions, while another considers reassessing diplomatic support for the Falkland Islands, where 255 British troops died in a 1982 war with Argentina.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez dismissed the internal email as unofficial, saying 'we do not work off of emails, we work from official documents and positions.' President Trump previously called British Prime Minister Keir Starmer 'No Winston Churchill' for refusing to join the war.
- The 76-year-old NATO bloc faces unprecedented concern that the U.S. might not defend European allies, analysts and diplomats say. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth noted that Iran's longer-range missiles cannot hit the United States but can reach Europe.
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Among the punishments that arise in an internal Pentagon email is suggested the suspension of NATO "difficult" countries, such as Spain. Sánchez devalues and claims only to work "on the basis of official documents".
·Portugal
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An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish recalcitrant NATO allies.
·Finland
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The Pentagon would consider removing Spain from the Atlantic Alliance. Madrid strongly condemned the American attack on Iran and refused to allow the US Army to use its airspace and American bases in Spain.
·Paris, France
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