{"id":29404,"date":"2026-03-21T08:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/29404\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:56:30","slug":"iran-targeted-but-did-not-hit-diego-garcia-base-with-missiles-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/29404\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran targeted but did not hit Diego Garcia base with missiles: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Garcia, a British Indian Ocean Territory and the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago on July 02, 2013 in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory.<\/p>\n<p>USGS NASA | Gallo Images | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at \u200bDiego Garcia but did \u200cnot hit the U.S.-U.K. military base in the Indian \u200bOcean, the Wall \u200bStreet Journal reported on Friday, \u2060citing multiple U.S. \u200bofficials.<\/p>\n<p>One of the missiles failed \u200bin flight, while a U.S. warship fired an SM-3 interceptor \u200bat the other, \u200balthough it could not be determined \u200cif \u2060the interception succeeded, the newspaper said. The Journal did not specify when \u200bthe \u200bmissiles \u2060were fired.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and the British \u200bembassy in Washington \u200band \u2060Ministry of Defence did not immediately respond to \u2060Reuters \u200brequests for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diego Garcia, a British Indian Ocean Territory and the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[135,563,34,165,161,171,166,691,51],"class_list":["post-29404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-business-news","tag-general-dynamics-corp","tag-iran","tag-ishares-u-s-aerospace-defense-etf","tag-lockheed-martin-corp","tag-northrop-grumman-corp","tag-spdr-sp-aerospace-defense-etf","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116266335413852912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}