Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 07:24 UTC
“If they do have that, and they might very well have that, we'll take care of it in short order. We're not going to allow that to happen,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that his government is investigating whether Iran is storing drones in Cuba and warned that Washington would act if their presence on the island is confirmed, though he framed the matter as a hypothesis that has not been verified.
“If they do have that, and they might very well have that, we'll take care of it in short order. We're not going to allow that to happen,” he told reporters in the Oval Office, when asked by a conservative outlet. The president immediately qualified the scope of his remarks: “It could be that they're storing some, we're looking into it now. It could be so, and it could be it isn't.” No official report supporting the existence of such weaponry on Cuban territory has been made public.
The remarks echo a report published by the outlet Axios in May, which cited classified intelligence indicating that Cuba had acquired more than three hundred attack drones from Russia and Iran since 2023. That information has not been officially confirmed by Washington nor released in public documents. The Cuban government has neither admitted nor denied the acquisitions, though it has maintained that the country has the sovereign right to obtain the means necessary for its defense.
