Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani says he held a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, in which he denied that Italy authorised the use of its airbases for US attacks against Iran, Al Jazeera reports.

“Italy has never taken part in any military initiative and has never authorised the use of bases for war actions against Iran, in the strictest respect of the treaties with the United States,” Tajani writes on X.