US attack on Iran, Crosetto says no government informed in advance: minister denies from London

A government now on the sidelines of international diplomatic maneuvers on the Iran dossier. It is the one led by Giorgia Meloni who, despite the proclamations and propaganda of Palazzo Chigi, does not touch the ball on the Middle East (and not only) .

This is unwittingly confirmed by the words of the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto , who spoke on TV first on the special edition of Tg1 and then on that of La7 to comment on the air attack carried out by the United States on the main Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday night.

The bombing, according to the head of Defense, “completely changes the scenario, it opens up a much bigger crisis ,” for this reason Rome has taken protective measures “to secure the Italian contingents that are not involved and are not even a target in the Iranian response. We limited ourselves to moving those whose proximity to possible American targets could cause problems,” Crosetto said.

But above all, the minister and co-founder of Fratelli d'Italia wanted to underline in his speech that " no government was informed of the attack ", but "all the defenses or all the services that analyze what is happening took it for granted so there was not even any need to receive information, because we knew it, probably the Iranians knew it, the only thing missing was the time it would start".

“When the US B-2 Spirits move, we are talking about 20-meter by 52-meter aircraft, which are the only ones capable of carrying GBU-57 bombs,” the minister added, “it is perfectly clear what the result will be.”

Yet it seems that things did not go exactly like this. The representatives of the British government denied the minister, who have openly clarified that they had been previously informed by the United States about the air strikes launched against Iranian nuclear sites during the night between Saturday and Sunday.

The news, reported by Sky News citing sources close to Downing Street, was later confirmed in the same minutes in which Crosetto was speaking on TV by the British Minister for Business and Trade, Jonathan Reynolds , even if he did not want to say exactly when.

Reynolds' words contradict Crosetto on this point but above all undermine Meloni's narrative about his government acting as a "bridge" between the various diplomatic corps: the truth is that, despite the relations that are good on paper with both Netanyahu's Israeli government and Trump's White House, Italy remains in the second row on Iran and the crisis in the Middle East.