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Analysis
The Island No One Talks About - And Why Iran Just Reset the Threat Perception for Many Parts of the World
Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia this week, the remote but heavily fortified American military base in the Indian Ocean. Both failed to strike their target. But the real shock was not the attack itself — it was the distance. Tehran had publicly claimed a maximum missile range of 2,000 kilometres. Diego Garcia sits 4,000 kilometres away. In a single strike, Iran quietly rewrote the threat map for every military base, energy hub, and allied installation across the Gulf, South Asia, and Europe. The warheads missed. The warning did not.