President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last night that he is investigating whether Iran has stored drones in Cuba. “If they do have that, and they might very well have that, we’ll take care of it in short order,” Mercopress reported him saying. Is this an excuse for invading Cuba? He reportedly qualified his remarks somewhat by saying, “It could be they’re storing some. We’re looking into it right now. It could be so, and it could be it isn’t.” Trump offered no evidence and was answering a question that referenced an intelligence report which has not been made public.
There is no official, public report on this.
Back in May, Axios cited classified intelligence reports indicating that Cuba had acquired more than 300 drones from Russia and Iran since 2023. The claim has never been confirmed—and Axios’s own reporting undercuts the alarm: U.S. officials, it said, do not believe Cuba is an imminent threat or is actively planning an attack, and one senior U.S. official warned that the intelligence “could become a pretext for U.S. military action.”
