WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States had withdrawn all B-1 bombers from a British airbase because of unspecified threats that he believed were linked to Iran.
Washington confirmed earlier that the bombers had left the RAF Fairford airbase - used by the United States to launch strikes on Tehran - even as the British government insisted the site was safe.
"There were some threats," Trump told reporters at the White House.
"And rather than tempting the enemy - we'll capture the enemy and beat the enemy, but why should we leave them there? So we moved them around a little bit, not very far."
