March 21 (Reuters) – Iran fired two ballistic missiles at the U.S.-U.K. military base Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that Iran had launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles toward the base but that they did not hit it. Mehr said targeting […]
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Iran fires missiles toward US-UK base in Indian ocean, Iran’s Mehr says
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March 21 (Reuters) – Iran fired two ballistic missiles at the U.S.-U.K. military base Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that Iran had launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles toward the base but that they did not hit it.
Mehr said targeting the base was a “significant step … that shows that the range of Iran’s missiles is beyond what the enemy previously imagined”.
(Reporting by Hatem Maher and Ahmed Tolba; Editing by William Mallard)