{"id":384897,"date":"2026-10-05T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/special-relationship-what-the-raf-fairford-saga-tells-us-about-uk-us-relations\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:00:07","slug":"special-relationship-what-the-raf-fairford-saga-tells-us-about-uk-us-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/special-relationship-what-the-raf-fairford-saga-tells-us-about-uk-us-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP? What the RAF Fairford saga tells us about UK-US relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/0bB-E_ofeIU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP? What the RAF Fairford saga tells us about UK-US relations\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bB-E_ofeIU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The sudden withdrawal of American heavy bombers from RAF Fairford back to the United States follows a major incident near the Gloucestershire airbase. Five men were arrested near the base, with the UK government saying it showed &quot;strong indications&quot; of state-sponsored involvement from Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>So why has the US pulled its bombers from the UK? Has the abrupt departure handed Tehran a tactical and propaganda victory? And what does the saga say about the UK\u2019s special relationship with the US?<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of the Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy is joined by Dr David Jordan from the Freeman Air and Space Institute, former senior official at the Pentagon, Jim Townsend, as well as Trita Parsi from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden withdrawal of American heavy bombers from RAF Fairford back to the United States follows a major incident near the Gloucestershire airbase. Five men were arrested near the base, with the UK government saying it showed &quot;strong indications&quot; of state-sponsored involvement from Tehran. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] So why has the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-384897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP? What the RAF Fairford saga tells us about UK-US relations | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP? 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