An internal Pentagon email said that the White House is considering reviewing the U.S. position on the United Kingdom’s claim to the Malvinas Islands, according to an anonymous U.S. official quoted by Reuters. 

The Malvinas are a South Atlantic archipelago in the Argentine Sea occupied by the British in 1833, which Argentina claims as its own. On April 2, 1982, the Argentine dictatorship tried to seize the islands in a war that lasted 74 days and left a death toll of 649 Argentine and 255 British soldiers.

An article published on Friday by the news agency said the decision was among a list of potential retaliations the U.S. would carry out to punish its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies for not supporting the recent war with Iran.

The unnamed source said another potential decision was suspending Spain from NATO.

Asked for comment, the British Embassy in Argentina directed the Herald to statements made by UK Foreign Secretary Yvette........

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