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Late March/early April trip to Cyprus
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:26 pm
In light of current events (U.S./Israel vs, Iran war), would y'all still go?
U.S. State Department still lists Cyprus as Level 1, exercise normal precautions. For context, France has long been Level 2, increased caution.
The State Department web site does have a statement issued today about possible drone attacks in the Paphos region (where we're going), but it sounds like they're most worried about attacks on the U.S. embassy.
To me, Cyprus wouldn't seem like a very valuable target for the Iranians, but that assumes a level of rationality on their part. It is out of range of all but their longest range ICBMs. At worst, I would expect Iran's war fighting capability to be severely diminished over the next few weeks, if they're not soundly defeated very soon (days/couple of weeks).
We are NOT travelling as part of a group so we'll be pretty low profile.
Plane tickets are already bought, and I can still cancel hotel and AirBnb arrangements so I wouldn't want to pull the plug at this point even if we were to bail.
Thoughts?
To be clear, I am VERY happy that someone is finally willing to take Iran off the table. Been a LONG time coming.
U.S. State Department still lists Cyprus as Level 1, exercise normal precautions. For context, France has long been Level 2, increased caution.
The State Department web site does have a statement issued today about possible drone attacks in the Paphos region (where we're going), but it sounds like they're most worried about attacks on the U.S. embassy.
To me, Cyprus wouldn't seem like a very valuable target for the Iranians, but that assumes a level of rationality on their part. It is out of range of all but their longest range ICBMs. At worst, I would expect Iran's war fighting capability to be severely diminished over the next few weeks, if they're not soundly defeated very soon (days/couple of weeks).
We are NOT travelling as part of a group so we'll be pretty low profile.
Plane tickets are already bought, and I can still cancel hotel and AirBnb arrangements so I wouldn't want to pull the plug at this point even if we were to bail.
Thoughts?
To be clear, I am VERY happy that someone is finally willing to take Iran off the table. Been a LONG time coming.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 5:32 pm
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Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:49 pm to Broadside Bob
I would. In fact, I’m paving the way for you Thursday. Heading to Greece!
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:12 pm to Broadside Bob
I'd totally still go. I don't worry too much in general when traveling, but there's more likely to be lone wolf retaliation in Paris, Manchester, London, Nice, etc., where you have greater concentrations of certain people. ETA: like Austin 
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 5:13 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:53 pm to Broadside Bob
Thank you both for your responses. That pretty much where I was landing. Afterall, I don't think anyone crossed London off their tourist destinations in the early 2000s when bombs were going off on buses and on the tube. Just needed a reasonability check.
Posted on 3/3/26 at 10:08 am to Broadside Bob
My totally uneducated guess is that you'll be fine.
So far the biggest incident in Cyprus has been a drone strike at the RAF Akrotiri base, southwest of Limassol. I really don't see it getting hit again because that might actually bring the Brits into the conflict from an offensive standpoint.
So far the biggest incident in Cyprus has been a drone strike at the RAF Akrotiri base, southwest of Limassol. I really don't see it getting hit again because that might actually bring the Brits into the conflict from an offensive standpoint.
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