Iran’s Long-Distance Strikes On Diego Garcia Put Europe On High Alert

(Rikard Jozwiak – RFE/RL) European nations have tried their best not to get too entangled in the US-Israeli war with Iran, now in its fourth week. They’ve been weighing whether to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz but said they would do so only after a cease-fire and preferably with a mandate from the United Nations. But on March 21, the threat came closer to home when Iran proved that its missiles have the potential to reach European cities. Tehran fired two ballistic missiles toward Diego Garcia — a joint American-British base in the Indian Ocean some 4,000 kilometers from Iranian territory — and officials in Brussels and beyond are suddenly taking notice. Previously, Iran — under the reign of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — had maintained a cap to its ballistic missile range at 2,000 kilometers. – Iran’s Long-Distance Strikes On Diego Garcia Put Europe On High Alert