Israel has warned countries across the globe, including London, Paris and Berlin, could all be under threat from Iranian missiles after the regime launched a strike on a British military base in the Chagos Islands.
The Daily Mail reports that two ballistic missiles were fired towards Diego Garcia, a base in the Indian Ocean jointly operated by the US and the UK, on Friday night.
Sources reported that one of the missiles failed in flight, while the other was intercepted by a US warship, in what is believed to be the first-ever strike on the military base.
The precise timing of the incident is as yet unknown, though the Government on Saturday said that it took place before Keir Starmer gave the go-ahead to Donald Trump to use UK-based bombers threatening the Strait of Hormuz.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has accused the Prime Minister of a “cover-up” on the details and questioned why the public was not told “sooner”.
The IDF confirmed the Diego Garcia attack was the first time Iran had launched a long-range missile capable of reaching a distance of around 4,000km, since the start of the war.
Hours after the strike, Iran declared it had “missile dominance …over the skies of the occupied territories” and warned its new tactics and launch systems” would leave the US and Israel “astonished”.
Analysts believed Tehran used intermediate-range ballistic missiles, or even used a space launch vehicle to enable the weapons to reach Diego Garcia.
