According to multiple media and government accounts, Iran targeted the joint U.S-UK base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM).
This is significant because Diego Garcia is 4,000 km away from where the missiles were launched and would indicate that all of Europe was within the strike zone as President Donald Trump previously warned.
Europe and the NATO alliance previously said Iran did not possess such capabilities. Apparently, they do.
As noted by Defense Security, “This attempted strike occurred around day 22 of the latest escalation cycle in the U.S.–Israel–Iran confrontation, reinforcing the view among defense planners that Tehran is prepared to expand its missile envelope to threaten strategic rear-area bases supporting Western operations rather than limiting attacks to regional targets within the Persian Gulf.”
“Diego Garcia’s distance of roughly 3,800 – 4,000 km from Iran makes the launch operationally significant because it suggests either the use of a lighter warhead estimated at approximately 300–500 kg or the deployment of a previously undisclosed extended-range variant, both of which indicate a deliberate demonstration of reach rather than a conventional strike attempt.”
According to the reports, one missile failed in flight whilst the other was engaged by a U.S. destroyer utilizing an SM-3 interceptor; however, as of this writing a successful interception was not confirmed.
Regardless, neither of the missiles hit the base. Iranian long-range precision missiles have not previously been publicly assessed as having this kind of range.
(VIA MSM) – Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles from roughly 2,400 miles away at the Diego Garcia base in the Chagos Islands, marking its first confirmed strike attempt at such a distance. US officials said one was intercepted by a warship’s SM-3 system and the other failed mid-flight. Iranian media hailed the attack as a “significant step” showing capabilities beyond the previously assumed 2,000 km range limit.
Military analysts, including Gen Sir Richard Barrons, said the strike proves Iran’s missile reach is greater than believed, potentially covering Western Europe. This revelation could force NATO and allied forces to rethink missile defence postures and regional force deployment. The capability leap also signals a shift in Iran’s deterrence strategy, potentially emboldening it in future confrontations. (more)
🚨 WOW. President Trump has just been proven right AGAIN on the world stage — Iran just proved they can fire missiles WAY BEYOND the Middle East
"2,500 miles away — previously, Iran said their missiles go only 1,300 miles!"
They fired at the US-UK base on Diego Garcia in the… pic.twitter.com/pvLX8e0rbr
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 21, 2026
Here’s an article from India that’s worth reading:
Editor’s picks, 21 March, 2026
https://www.opindia.com/2026/03/irans-diego-garcia-gambit-missile-strike-that-shook-americas-illusion-of-distance/
Missing is strategic? Most “Americans” couldn’t point out Diego on a map so the authors illusion of knowledge is just as laughable as their grasp of what constitutes modern warfare.
It was a first test. The Iranians have never before fired missiles with this range. And it is a warning. In a few months, the Iranians could have larger quantities of missiles that work just as well as the others by then, and with which they can strike all U.S. bases in Italy and Germany—even Oslo, Stockholm, and Finland.
For the U.S., this means they face a ring of conflict around Iran where nothing is safe and where they’d be better off staying out of range. And a second, larger ring within which attacks can occur at any time, and where everything must be protected by defense systems or bunkers.
The Iranian strategy is well known. It is not geared toward a blitzkrieg and quick victories, but toward a systematic approach over many years. This includes gradually weakening and pushing back the adversary.
Everything the U.S. must deploy to protect Diego Garcia, Ramstein, and its other bases in Europe is lacking for operational deployment against Iran, but also in Ukraine, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan.
It doesn’t matter whether Americans can find Diego Garcia on a map. At the Pentagon, they will understand the significance of the missile test. The rest of the world, including India, also understands.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HD5SqwuWAAEtiQo?format=jpg&name=small
So, if your third paragraph is true, why have they waited until this moment to do it? When was it going to be the right time? They have been pushing on the US and Israel for years.
As for your second paragraph, when is this ring of fire to take place? Our navy has been sitting in the straits for months. As far as strategic. I call it desperation. The concern, moreover, would be taking out the launch sites. And you can bet, we have found this one already.
No, this sounds a lot like propaganda from Baghdad Bob.
How would Americans have reacted if, during ongoing negotiations over a deal, a country had bombed half the U.S. administration and a school, and on top of that carried out carpet bombing of major U.S. cities?
The U.S. is now considered “non-agreement capable” and “non-negotiation capable.” This has changed a great deal for Iran, including its strategy.
Until then, Iran’s military capabilities and potential to wage war against the U.S. and Israel served the purpose of avoiding such a conflict if possible. The damage to Iran would be immense. The goal was to make the costs and risks for its adversaries so high that they would not take the risk and would accept a deal.
That has failed. Today, the goal is to be able to wage this war for several years. In the first ring, U.S. bases in the Gulf region will be destroyed, and the radius within which it is too dangerous for U.S. ships and aircraft is to be consolidated and expanded.
In the second ring, the aim is partly to disrupt logistics and partly to force the U.S. to protect its bases, as they are no longer safe. The mere threat of being able to strike them is sufficient for this. The Iranians do not have the means to destroy them all, nor is that necessary.
Missiles with a range of 4,000 km or more have been an option since October 2025, and yesterday the first units were ready for testing. Had a deal been reached with Trump, testing and mass production of such missiles would not have been necessary at all.
News X, India, Shivam Verma, October 9, 2025
https://www.newsx.com/world/irans-supreme-leader-khamenei-makes-big-move-lifts-all-cap-on-countrys-missile-range-what-it-means-89227/
Because Iran is now the French castle in Monty python and the U.S. is sir Lancelot.
Iran can prolong the war as long as they want where as we need to get the heck out of there asap
Israel gains regional power with a U.S. evacuation.
The Gulf Arab states are diminished without U.S. protection and the U.S. loses gulf $ we need to help with any chance of recovery
PBS .. duh
Also missing. From the same India news.
For India and the broader Indian Ocean region, the implications are equally significant. The Indian Ocean can no longer be viewed as a relatively stable strategic space.
Nothing about Every Square meter of India is now within range of these missiles.
As predicted, the missiles fired by Iran were armed with MSM warheads.
Worth reading? No. FFS, you people keep trying. Ya’ll are like g gnats, annoying little pests, you get rid of one, 12 take its place.
Well it shows that our President had the best information while others wish to malign him based on false information. Maybe some readers gained more trust in our President?
How do you know this to be true. I’ve seen many reports stating that even George bush knew Iran was too much to tackle and would be a major war.
And that it’s been stated for years the damage to the world economy would be great when Iran closed the strait.
Is this wishful thinking or trust the plan?
I don’t anticipate young Baron Trump or Kai Trump going to Iran. Why should we waste others blood and treasure
And there this
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2035751629836710159
Lindsay Graham isn’t sending his son either. (I already know he’s gay but it makes my point
Do you think PDT has ever made a mistake?
Why do you want this place to be a 5d chess echo chamber
Is it to scary to consider this could end up really bad?
I hope for the best but I can see many flaws in our current trajectory. Like for instance domestic recovery, mid term losses etc
Ivar Malmstrom,
The article you linked to is very informative.
Thank you for your post as well as including the link.
Have a great day.
Super Himalaya
….Iranians did strike City of Dimona..reported by Hal Turner Radio Show…….13 km south of city is Dimona Nuclear Research Center……
Videos exist and the damage is significant because missiles got through their defenses.
LOL!
“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Mar 21, 2026, 7:44 PM
The direct link to the post on Truth Social is:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116269822349947644
A U.S. strike on Iran’s power infrastructure would cripple essential services across major cities, including Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz. The destruction of power plants would lead to widespread blackouts, disrupting access to clean water, refrigeration, heating, and medical care.
Hospitals already strained by war casualties—over 2,000 killed and 21,000 wounded in Iran since the conflict began—would face catastrophic failures in life-support systems and vaccine storage. Long-term outages would halt industrial production, shut down schools and businesses, and paralyze transportation networks. With 220 medical centers already evacuated due to prior strikes, further damage to energy infrastructure would deepen the humanitarian crisis.
I am afraid the “innocents” might suffer more than the regime. War is hell…
Innocents have been suffering in Iran for the past 40 some odd years….
💯
If they really want to hurt Iran, bomb the dams. If they lose any water storage they will need to evacuate Tehran.
https://iranwire.com/en/news/148706-tehran-close-to-water-tension-as-dam-water-drops-to-worrying-levels/
IRGC controlling access to water was one of the issues that got people out into the streets protesting a few months ago.
That’s a good point. I remember reading not that long ago that Iran was out of water.
where did that story go?
And they will all come here? I don’t think we need that at this time.
Hey Iran, don’t call his bluff…
The West needs to do something about the regime sympathizers and adherents and family members living on our doorstep and enjoying the fruits of our labors…
When PDJT says power plants are we sure he’s not referring to mosques?
looking more everyday like boots on the ground.
Is this going to be like vietnam in that the varmits just keep on and on?😳
The military industrial complex made to order type thing.
Careful
The Lindsay graham warhouse gonna be big mad at you
Worse. Iran has weapons we do not have. Iran has weapons that are effective against our air force and our war ships. We are almost out of missiles for our defense shields like the Iron Dome. Iran is mostly mountains and dessert – much worse terrain than the jungles of Nam.
Very democrat of you….
President Trump is no LBJ….
You got a link to that?
Lolly we are doomed I tell ya, DOOMED 😂
If Iran has weapons that are effective against our air force and our war ships, why have they not used them? What is the source of your information? Iraq is mostly mountains and dessert. How did that work out for them?
Doubt it. The corrupt murderer LBJ is dead.
Sad.
So disappointed in Mr. Kent.
His political career over due to self-inflicted wound.
Because of wife number two I think is what happened to him.
So…I would assume that the area in Iran from which the launch occurred is now vaporized. (?)
Or was this missile from a mobile launcher, freight train, etc. ?
Is this their last one? One would think that if the Iranians had e.g. 10 such missiles, all would have been sent against Diego Garcia, or at one of our aircraft carriers, etc.
Wrong assumptions. Proof of concept – US’s allies and bases are vulnerable.
Well, this is the third such post. Funny, how we targeted the other launch sites in the same manner.
US’s allies? Just one more reason to get us the h#@% out of Europe. They have all committed suicide. Leave the bodies there.
Send in the troops now.
I demand full invasion. This will finally totally dispel any notion that President Trump isn’t playing 5 d chess
I worked on missile defense for decades. We all knew that the Iranians had missiles that went this far. Folks, they have launched their own satellites into space. Do you think that they could not place nuclear warheads on Europe or …. North America??? And why do you think we were putting missile defense in Poland and other former Soviet satellite states? Yes, that is under the path from Iran to the US. Serious stuff, my friends!
There’s effectively a land based DDG at a base in Romania for that very reason…
The President is going to have to blow up ALL electrical sources in Iran to stop the firing of these ballistic missiles by the Iranian lunatics.
I believe the President has already realized Iran has to be bombed back to the Stone Age to neuter all offensive weapons launches. You can’t launch a ballistic missile using a 12-volt car battery.
The monsters in charge in Iran know they cannot be stopped without the destruction of all fundamental energy sources in their country which thorough destruction will adversely affect ALL the Iranian people. America may not be able to kill every lunatic in charge in Iran but the tyrants cannot attack the world without a functioning electrical grid.
That would be effectively genocide. We can’t win this without incurring considerable loss of life. We are talking body bags coming home the way they did from Nam likely for as long as well. We never should have attacked them. We should have separated from Bibi’s stupidity. They assumed the Iron Dome would protect Israel. It has not. There are reports that parts of Israel look like GAZA. Tragic and stupid.
Treepers, Just to clarify…that is not me. I am lolli, not Lolly.
If you feel you are having a psychological breakdown there is a number you can call. I’m worried about you.
Message is this will end on Iran’s terms, the US does not have complete air superiority. The US and its allies no longer have access to the region’s oil or natural gas, as the ships can not be protected. Further, US allies in Europe as well as the Gulf region are in Iran’s sights.
LOL 😆 🤣 😂 ! Thanks for your concern…..
UK has no defences to stop Iranian missiles and would be forced to rely on US and Europe to stop them as it’s revealed they can now hit London
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15668053/UK-defences-Iranian-missiles-rely-US-Europe-stop-London.html
Iran has to keep good relations with East Pakistan so it won’t attack the capital of West Pakistan.
Iran spiked Trump’s ball into the face of NATO.
US prepared.
NATO, Turkey excluded, face red from shock as it might need to reconsider it’s a target.
Why are all these “military experts” surprised by this..??? Iran has managed to put a few satellites in to orbit….When you can do that, you have IRBM capability…I do believe that’s why Europe won’t get involved in the Special Military Operation the USA is conducting against Iran….
Asking for clarification/explaination: Why did my posting of a Casablanca Rick/Capt. Renauld gif get rejected but a cartoon of a guy about to whack a camel’s gonads makes it through.
Think of military history and the science of theoretical strategy developed over centuries. Time becomes the foundation for victory based on intelligence and intentions.
In other words have confidence in faith that your prayers will be answered. As above so below. God bless the USA
The missile flew 2,500 miles. There are how many military assets in that area with air search radar and none of them were able to detect and defeat this thing??? Is it an Iranian success or a global failure???
What if the missiles that did not successfully hit the target Diego Garcia on purpose? What if the world needed to see the true potential? Meaning, the capability of Irans aggression could in fact be larger than the world thought.
My thoughts do wander.
Its enough that liberals always get the facts wrong but our side has to be correct always. The poster said miles and he should have said kilometers.