U.S. Forces in the Middle East: Separating Fact from Iranian Propaganda

There has been no reduction of U.S. forces in the Iran theater. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Air Education and Training Command.

Pro-Iran propaganda on social media claims that most U.S. bases in the Middle East have been destroyed and are uninhabitable, and that the United States has abandoned all of its regional bases. No part of this is true.

Prior to the February 28 strikes on Iran, the Pentagon reduced personnel at several bases located within range of Iranian short-range missiles. The...