NATO increases missile defence posture after Turkey incident

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March 5 (Reuters) - NATO has increased its alliance-wide ballistic missile defence ​posture following the intercept of a ‌missile from Iran targeted at Turkey, its military headquarters said on Thursday.

The posture will remain at the heightened ​level until the threat from Iran’s “continued, ​indiscriminate attacks across the region subsides,” Colonel ⁠Martin O’Donnell, spokesperson for the Supreme ​Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, said in a post ​on X.

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O’Donnell said NATO had “perfectly executed” its missile defence in Turkey on Wednesday.

“In less than 10 minutes, ​NATO service members identified a threat to ​allies, a ballistic missile, confirmed its trajectory, alerted land- ‌and ⁠sea-based missile defence systems and launched an interceptor to defeat the threat and protect our territory and its people,” he said.

NATO ​Secretary General Mark ​Rutte ⁠earlier on Thursday said the alliance does not plan to trigger its ​Article 5 mutual defence clause over ​the ⁠ballistic missile attack, amid fears the alliance could become embroiled in the U.S.-Iran war.

Rutte did not ⁠go ​into detail when asked about ​an increased defence posture in the alliance.

Reporting by Bart ​Meijer and Andrew Gray; Editing by Bill Berkrot

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