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PH not credible target in ongoing Mideast conflict, says AFP

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) assures the Philippines that it is not a credible target of US, Israel and Iran strikes as the ongoing war is a regional conflict involving only Gulf states. Rear Admiral Roy Vincent Trinidad, AFP spokesman for the West Philippine Sea on March 2, 2026 also clarified that EDCA sites are Philippine-owned facilities and not foreign military bases giving US enemies no reason to target the country

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Transcript
00:00Wala. There has been no monitored credible threat against the Philippines.
00:07First and foremost, what is happening in the Middle East right now is a regional conflict.
00:13Tirana's been attacking the Gulf states within the range of her missile capability, 2,000 kilometers.
00:21We are 7,500 kilometers away.
00:24So wala tayong threat. Malibanon, wala na monitored credible threat against us.
00:30Walas ang dahilan.
00:31We have no proxy, state, or non-state actors in the Southeast Asian region that could be used as staging
00:38areas.
00:39So again, as mentioned by the Department of Defense and the headquarters of the AFP,
00:45there has been no monitored credible threat against the Philippines.
00:49EDCA sites are sovereign facilities on the Philippine country.
00:53They are not U.S. bases, just to put the record straight.
00:56Let us be very clear and we should be able to identify the issues at hand.
01:01So as not to be spreading information which are not verified, which could cause undue alarms sa ating mga kababayan.
01:09Again, EDCA sites are Philippine sovereign facilities on Philippine bases or areas in the country.
01:18They are not U.S. bases.
01:20Secondly, there is no monitored credible threat against the Philippines or EDCA sites or any part of the country.
01:29Thirdly, capabilities of the IIGC, of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, is only within the Gulf states.
01:39Their longest range missile is the Paramsar and the Sejil, if I'm not mistaken,
01:45with a range of around 2,000 to 2,500 kilometers.
01:48We should not even reach the U.S. base in Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean.
01:52We have to be very careful because it might border on spreading the false narrative.
01:58Baka naman, o babot na naman ito sa usapin na panghihinain ang alliance between the U.S. and the Philippines.
02:07Kung yun ang patutunguhan ng kwento, then it is foreign malign influence.
02:11The message I mentioned is very clear.
02:14Number one, even the Department of Defense itself mentioned that there is no credible monitored threat.
02:21From the IRGC to the Philippines.
02:25Number two, there are no proxy states, states or non-state actors of the IRGC of Iran in the Southeast
02:31Asian region
02:32that could be used as staging areas against the Philippines.
02:36Number three, their capabilities are only designed for the Gulf states.
02:40And lastly, EDCA sites are not U.S. bases.
02:43The Supreme Court has ruled in 2016 that these are all legal.
02:48They are Philippine territory.
02:50So we should not give out the wrong information.
02:54So as to cause undue alarm.
02:58It has happened in the past in the 70s and 80s.
03:01Any conflict in the Gulf, in the states would impact the world's oil prices.
03:05But we leave it up to the Department of Energy and other government agencies
03:10that have a direct hand on oil prices to give the proper standard government on that.
03:41We will see you in the past.
03:42We have a prolonged production of the U.S. Hemph
03:44The Morning
03:45BIS
03:48The Iron
03:48The Iron
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03:48The Ironief
03:49Money
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