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Jordan says their airspace if off limits to strikes on Iran while the US fill one of their airbases withh aircraft, cargo flights and air defences. What gives? Right, so Jordanian foreign minister Ayman Safadi has phoned Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and said Jordan will not allow its territory or airspace to be used for any military action against Iran, said like the sentence itself can shut a runway. Three things then happen, and you can’t talk around any of them. First, Muwaffaq Salti Air Base at Azraq in eastern Jordan is being used as a US hub. Second, commercial satellite imagery has shown more than sixty American military aircraft on the ground there. Third, flight tracking has logged at least sixty-eight US military transport planes landing there since mid-February. So Safadi has “off limits” for the microphones and Azraq has “i ... 

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IsraelKernow DamoDonald TrumpIranWarUSAJordanMIddle EastKing AbdullahMilitary
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