The President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Monday that his Government has opened an investigation into the "possible" presence of Iranian drones in Cuba, while stressing that Washington will not allow "that to happen".
"If they have them, and it is very possible that they have them, we will take care of it. (US Secretary of State) Marco (Rubio) is right next door. And if they have them, we will take care of it shortly," the leader asserted from the Oval Office when asked by journalists about the eventual presence of Iranian unmanned aircraft on the island.
Next, the head of the US Executive pointed out that it "could be" that the Caribbean country was "stockpiling some" missiles from Iran. "We are investigating it right now," he indicated, insisting that his Administration is not going to "allow that to happen."
These words from Trump come shortly after Rubio himself stated that Washington will continue to use "all the tools at its disposal" to "promote" "political and economic" changes in Cuba and put an end to "decades of repression and economic incompetence of its communist regime."
In the same vein, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, maintained on the eve that the island hosts "both Russian and Chinese" facilities, attributing to Moscow and Beijing "intelligence posts, signal collection posts, and military officers in Cuba."
To the embargo that has weighed on the island for six decades, the United States has added since the beginning of the year an energy blockade that has at times caused a total interruption of supply. In fact, Cuban authorities notified last Friday of a new nationwide power outage, the fourth so far this year.