The denial risks fueling tensions with the United States, the newspaper writes, recalling that Senator Marco Rubio has said that after the Iran war, the United States may be forced to reevaluate its relationship with the NATO defense alliance.
The announcement came after Italy received a travel plan from the United States, without Washington, D.C., consulting Italian authorities, and while the warplanes were already in the air, according to the newspaper.
Since the plane in question was neither on a logistical nor a routine mission, the flight was considered outside the countries' bilateral agreement, and a stopover was therefore denied.
The move comes a day after Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles announced that the country's airspace was closed to American aircraft participating in the Iran war.
The Spanish government has previously been among Europe's most critical of Israel's military operations in Gaza, and now describes the Iran war as illegal.
