An investigative report, based on close field monitoring of developments in the war between the United States and Iran, has revealed the use of civilian facilities in Saudi Arabia for American military purposes. These include the following:

▪️ Facility: Airports and their radar systems
▪️ Type of use: Refuelling points for fighter jets, maintenance operations, pilot rotations, and the use of radar systems and control towers to monitor missiles and drones.

▪️ Facility: Ports and their radar systems
▪️ Type of use: The covert movement of military vessels under the cover of commercial shipping, as well as the use of radar systems and control towers to track missiles and drones.

▪️ Facility: Hotels
▪️ Type of use: Accommodation for officers and soldiers fleeing bombardment of their military bases and residential quarters.

▪️ Facility: Administrative office towers
▪️ Type of use: Temporary offices replacing headquarters that were struck within military bases.

▪️ Facility: US data centres — Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft
▪️ Type of use: Processing newly generated military intelligence data linked to Saudi and Gulf geography.

▪️ Facility: American oil companies contracted with Aramco
▪️ Type of use: Installation of maritime radar systems to replace radars reportedly struck on a daily basis, and the conversion of offshore facilities into military monitoring points.