Tehran claimed the strike demonstrated capabilities for long-distance attacks, with Diego Garcia the same distance from Iran as much of central Europe.

Iran has fired missiles at the joint U.K.-U.S. Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean, claiming the strike shows it is capable of longer-distance attacks than previously known.

Tehran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the base in the Chagos Islands, a remote British overseas territory located more than 2,000 miles from Tehran, Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. Neither missile hit the base, it added, though neither Iran nor the U.K. specified how close the missiles came to Diego Garcia.

The distance of the attempted strike could indicate that Iran has capabilities for long-distance attacks that it has previously denied, with the base the same distance from Iran as much of central Europe. It is unclear, however, if the missiles carried a payload or how far such an attack could truly reach, as neither missile reached its target.

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    You think? I didn’t downvote, I’m curious and not dismissing your contention. What makes you think that?

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      Their nonstop terrorist actions and history of false flag attacks. They’ve displaced 1 million people in Lebanon and are bombing neighborhoods and killing families to steal land under the cover of this war. Israel’s main objective is imperialist expansion and power. They are a country of 10 million so they need the western powers to fight any larger countries that oppose their capture of the Middle East. While all this chaos has been going on they have been escalating their land annexation and murdering of the indigenous. The false flag attacks are their way to force western countries into wars for their objectives. It’s the same reason they had Epstein traffic children to the politicians all around the west and why they bribe politicians to force the west into working towards their objectives.

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        There is talk of a false flag terrorist attack in the US. The modus operandi is to find some mentally ill asshole and lead him to do it, or get close enough to frame them for it after they do it. The mask is off, I don’t assume they won’t.

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          There are a lot of IDF living in the United States. We even have IDF in government Josh Shapiro for example. The Kamala campaign suspected him of ties to Mossad. I’m sure there’s a lot of Mossad here. I also can’t help but to think about the Israeli who was recently caught in Las Vegas with a biolab that had Ebola and other deadly diseases in an air bnb garage lab.