Iran urged to strike Diego Garcia base ‘immediately’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-urged-strike-diego-garcia-174851568.html

34 comments

  1. “The Iranian official said: “Some are suggesting that missiles be fired towards the island, not with the intent to hit anything, but to fall into the water to send a clear message to the Americans that we are serious” 

    Thinking you can bluff/feint a missile strike against a superpower is a very “interesting” approach.

  2. declaring war with the UK and US at the same time preemptively… well that would certainly speed up the process

  3. >A senior Iranian official said military commanders have been asked to target the joint UK-US base, which sits on Britain’s Chagos Islands, in an attempt to deter Donald Trump from striking Iran.

    I don’t think attacking a US base would make a US strike on Iran less likely…

  4. This is literally the dumbest thing Khamenei could do.

  10. “Iran urged to give the USA an excuse ‘immediately’”

    There, I fixed the headline.

  11. I really see no merit on the part of Iran to attack Diego Garcia even if they put 100% effort. It will surely guarantee military response from US that will be devastating for Iran.

  12. Does Iran even have anything in their arsenal that can reach that far?

  14. Iran is more likely to go after Saudi oil facilities, particularly if theirs are attacked. Combine that with some tanker attacks and you have a much better deterrent than going after DG.

    I wouldn’t be surprised by attacks on Israel either, but Iran’s allies in the region have been decimated in the last year.

  15. This is all talk.

    First, Iran doesn’t have the capability to strike. Their longest range bomber has a combat range of ~700miles. Their longest range cruise missile goes ~1000miles.

    Both are slow as shit. Diego Garcia is 2400miles from the nearest Iranian military base.

    Second… Diego Garcia is a British Island. You bomb it and the UK is involved as well.

  16. That sounds like a supremely BAD ideas if you’re trying to avoid conflict with the US

  17. Striking first is the absolute worst thing Iran can do here as it’d give credibility to whatever Trump does afterwards

  18. Can’t wait for the next Signal thread from Hegseth to see what happens.

  19. Couple facts about Iran’s missile capabilities as it relates to striking Diego Garcia:

    First, Diego Garcia is about 3900km away from the closest part of Iran. It is more like 4000+km away from any suspected underground missile silos or above-ground launch sites that can accommodate a missile with enough range to make it that far.

    Second, according to Iran, the only missiles it has with 4000+km range are satellite launch vehicles, and not weapons. Now, that is likely a lie and they can probably mount a military payload onto one of those missiles, but the only way Iran can strike at Diego Garcia is by using missiles that they have said were only developed for peaceful purposes. All of their officially military missiles lack the range to hit it.

    Third, the three satellite launching missiles that might have the range to put a warhead on Diego Garcia if used as weapons are the Simorgh, Zuljanah, and maybe the Ghaem-100. That last one probably doesn’t have the range to make it reliably, but I will give it the benefit of the doubt and include it. Of those three missiles, only the Simorgh and Ghaem-100 are considered operational by Iran. The Zuljanah is still considered to be in testing. The Simorgh currently has around a 40% failure rate in the 8 actual flights that have been attempted. Also, it really only launches from a single above-ground site. If Iran were going to use one as a ballistic missile, they could likely only fire one at a time and it would take days or weeks to assemble another. The Ghaem-100 has only had four test launches and one of those failed so it currently has a 25% failure rate. Also, 4000km is estimated to be the very top end of its range, which means any small problems could leave a payload short of its intended target. Iran has claimed to be working on more powerful versions, but has yet to actually fly any. The Zuljanah has had two test flights so far, but both were sub-orbital, and as such haven’t demonstrated the actual performance needed to be used as a ballistic missile that could reach Diego Garcia.

    Basically, the vast majority of Iran’s missiles have nowhere near the range needed to reach Diego Garcia, and the ones that potentially could are either not reliable, haven’t shown the ability to actually reach their on-paper ranges, or can’t be fired en mass. It doesn’t really matter much if Iran wants to strike Diego Garcia or not. Realistically, they don’t have the weapons to do it.

  20. That would be one of the dumbest things they’ve done in Iran’s modern existence.

  22. Last time Iran messed with America’s military hardware, we obliterated half their navy in a literal 8-hour workday. They pull that, and Iran will be made an example of to show military dominance globally.

    There will be no nation building whatsoever, it will be a massive air and naval bombardment that will cripple the country. Iran has three choices

    1) preemptively strike, knowing that your destruction is inevitable and you will be reduced to what that Taliban currently is

    2) wait around continuing to do whatever you want, knowing Trump will eventually bomb you

    3) privately give in to whatever the USA/Trump is demanding while publicly denouncing them

    I’ll be honest, my money is on door #3. They will rail against the USA to save face but privately their only hope to hold power is to play ball.

  23. Ya that would only piss off everyone in the US and it would be nasty after that.

  24. Urged? By whom? Who would benefit the most from Iran’s regime suddenly ceasing to exist?

  25. If history has taught us anything, it’s that preemptive strikes on American military bases will certainly prevent the US from attacking your homeland in response…

    …right?

  26. I really don’t think bombing an American base would deter the Americans from attacking… What world are they on?

  27. Yeah because that worked out so well for Japan after Pearl Harbor..

  28. That would be so fucking stupid. You’d be giving them a real reason to bomb you into next week and it’s clear someone’s been itching to use the military.

  29. Im no military expert and Donald Trump is a complete fuckwit, but if Iran does this US military advisors are going to be spending a lot of time trying to convince Trump not to drop a nuke on Tehran.

  31. We can hit Iran from Missouri. I hope we don’t.

  32. Giving the US an excuse has never, ever gone wrong for anybody.

  33. That dude should go on YouTube and watch the video of the time the US Navy destroyed most of Iran’s navy in a few hours and finally stopped mostly because the jets in the air ran out of bombs and it would have looked bad to launch more aircraft.

    It even involved two jets buzzing an Iranian ship to try to get them to shoot at them because they had orders they couldn’t fire first. It did not go well for that ship after they took a shot at the aircraft.

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