“The Patriot missile battery will be moved to the north of Greece in the coming hours to provide anti-missile protection for a large part of Bulgarian territory,” Dendias said on the X network.
He specified that he had discussed the situation with his Bulgarian counterpart Atanas Zaprjanov.
In addition to the equipment, the Greek army will also send two high-ranking officers to the Bulgarian military operations center. The Greek minister emphasized that Athens will provide Bulgaria with all possible help against possible threats from Iran.
Iran’s long-range ballistic missiles are of particular concern. For example, Iranian missiles with a flat flight path of Soumar, namely 2500 kilometers, Ghadr, Sedjjil, Khorramshahr can handle 2000 kilometers.
This means that they can reach not only the territory of Israel and the American base in the Persian Gulf, but if they were to fly in a northwesterly direction, they would theoretically reach roughly the eastern borders of Hungary. As the crow flies, it is less than 2,000 kilometers from the western part of Iran, for example from the vicinity of the Iranian city of Tabriz, to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.
On Thursday, the Greek government deployed Patriot missiles on the island of Karpathos in the Dodecanese archipelago near the Turkish coast. Since the outbreak of the current war, Greece has also sent two frigates and four F-16 fighters to Cyprus, which became the target of an Iranian-made drone attack. In addition to Greece, other European countries such as Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands have strengthened their presence in the Mediterranean.
