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Questions & Help Mar 21, 2026 at 8:27 AM

Iran fires missiles toward US-UK base in Indian ocean, Iran's Mehr says

Posted by LiorZim


https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/iran-fires-missiles-toward-us-uk-base-indian-ocean-irans-mehr-says-2026-03-21/

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mariuszmie Mar 21, 2026 +37
Reuters now charges? Ok…
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curious_guidance12 Mar 21, 2026 +5
Have been for a while. Should at least give me an article I can read for free every week or month
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Shoot_from_the_Quip Mar 21, 2026 +21
Propaganda is free. Actual news charges. And people wonder why the rise of this regime happened.
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notorioustim10 Mar 21, 2026 +1
I got this great idea, spread propaganda, but charge, so people will believe it!
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 21, 2026 +1
Is this a Free comment? .. I dont have my bank card handy, :(
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MrGlayden Mar 21, 2026 +5
Your gonna need to be more specific on which regime your talking about
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 21, 2026 +1
Ah! The Fox News one ..
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mido_sama Mar 21, 2026 +23
EU was smarter to stay away from this shit show.
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MrBanden Mar 21, 2026 +20
Obligatory reminder that the airbase on Diego Garcia was built on stolen land of people descended from slaves, who had lived there for generations before being ethnically cleansed by the British on behalf of the US government.
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Travelerdude Mar 21, 2026 +3
Trump has no imagination. And the USA military has no backbone to stand up for what’s right.
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 21, 2026 +1
**\`Latest! IRAN Launches Missiles Towards Mar-A-Lago!\` ..** Donald is believed to be at Mar-a-lago. i.e. Iran fired missiles in a Westerly direction, Mar-a-lago obviously wasnt the target, Iranian missiles have a limit of just over 1000 miles .. Its propaganda & the US policy of flooding the zone with shit, dont fall for it. Mehr news agency? lol are they the ones linked to restoring/planting a King in Iran? Are they the go to Iranian messaging service for turkish hair cuts & asian travel news? Who knows who cares. *Iran Launches Missiles Towards Diego Garcia.* In other words iran launched missiles in a southerly direction .. Be carefull of getting a little bit of the truth but not the *whole* truth. Donald is raging with the UK, he wants to drag them into the War, he wants revenge .. He wont be happy until he has tricked keir Starmer into bloodying his hands too. Dont be surprised to find a Black Flag attack on UK interests to force the UK into the war. Dont be surprised to find *many* black flag attacks, Donald is getting desperate, it didnt work out the way he planned when he penned his warplan on the back of a sheet of loo roll sitting on the toilet. He\`s that desperate he *Will put* American boots on the ground *very very* soon.
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LiorZim Mar 21, 2026 -30
Now we know that in contrast to their original long standing claim, Iran's ballistic missiles do pose a threat to Europe. Iran was believed and have long claimed to have operational missiles with a range of roughly 2,000 km - this launch demonstrates double that range. This certainly serves Israel's objectives. In my opinion, this is an Iranian mistake to launch missiles like these at this stage - just "to showcase its capabilities."
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lt__ Mar 21, 2026 +24
This "threat to Europe" is a narrative that Europe itself doesn't corroborate - just an attempt to involve European resources for promotion of interests of Israel, Gulf Arabs and the US (a few European countries/their political entities might be willing to lean towards supporting the US side whatever it does for their own interests, but that's not Europe). Iran doesn't have a conflict with Europe. Why not add that Iran becomes threat to Thailand, Mongolia or Algeria, while we're at it? Surely Israel, the US or say China with their long range missiles or more sophisticated weapons are not threat to anybody in the world, that needs to be emphasized? They never would threaten or actually attack anyone?
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Roentgen_Ray1895 Mar 21, 2026 +11
Thankfully no other country involved in this conflict blatantly lies about its military capabilities despite glaringly obvious evidence
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_uckt_ Mar 21, 2026 +2
Iran has the right to defend itself.
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PinchedTazerZ0 Mar 21, 2026
Yes? That doesn't mean this is a good idea. Further antagonizing yet another country and setting off alarm bells for europe is going to make it even harder to maintain multiple "fronts"
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_uckt_ Mar 21, 2026 -12
The US is the f****** aggressor. Not everyone has to bow to your imperialism.
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PinchedTazerZ0 Mar 21, 2026 +10
Israel and the US are clearly the instigators but Iran isn't necessarily the good guy even with that in mind. Not exactly a government for the people even if you ignore the havoc theyre wreaking on their neighbors whose patience is running out. I'm not American, not sure what you mean by "your" imperialism. I am not a fan of the US sticking their noses in everywhere and kidnapping leaders
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Dnabb8436 Mar 21, 2026 +2
Imperialism is such over used term to the point that people dont understand what it actually means.
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thesign180 Mar 21, 2026 +1
Does attacking civilian infrastructure and sending missiles daily to 6 different GCC countries count as “defending itself”?
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fyrefox45 Mar 21, 2026 +1
Objectively yes? There's HIMARS launching from at least Bahrain and Kuwait, SA is hosting all the refuelers, and our troops and agents in Iraq and qatar are obviously not just sitting around. Day one of our attack on them we coated all of Tehran in oil rain, and they still didn't go for critical gas infrastructure until we attacked south Pars.
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ScipioAfricanvs Mar 21, 2026 -3
I think you’re missing the point. The missiles didn’t hit anything. Iran launching missiles with this range (albeit inaccurate) will not serve them long term because it will unite Europe against them now that Europe knows it’s within range of Iranian missiles.
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RavensQueen502 Mar 21, 2026 +4
I mean...at this point it looks like the smart option for every small/medium country that doesn't want to get a puppet regime installed at the whim of some major power or the other is to arm themselves to the maximum as fast as possible. Treaties and diplomacy is no longer a reliable option. Cold War level arms race with multiple nations oncoming.
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TheDecepticonIdeal Mar 21, 2026 +1
International law is officially dead as of February 2026. Might Makes Right going forward.
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 21, 2026 +1
Iranian missiles have a range of just over 1000 miles.
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 21, 2026 +1
Wake me up when the Eiffel Tower is in flames .. Zzzzz...
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_uckt_ Mar 21, 2026 -3
No it won’t, this is Israel and Americas war. If they start taking potshots at Europe, it is entirely because of Trump and Netanyahu. This idea that somehow the entire world will turn up and help is delusional.
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Dnabb8436 Mar 21, 2026 +1
So you think if France gets hit by an Iranian missile they will just shrug it off and blame the us? Wtf
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FeeHot5876 Mar 21, 2026 +9
The delusion on this site is really something to behold
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Dnabb8436 Mar 21, 2026
I get america bad narrative but sometimes its so insane. Its like all fault of anything Iran does is negated because America started it
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FeeHot5876 Mar 21, 2026 +4
Right it’s possible to not agree with the war and still be sensible about things related to it
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_uckt_ Mar 21, 2026 +1
So you think that Iran is going to do that? Based on what? Americans are so propagandised.
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FeeHot5876 Mar 21, 2026 +1
No one said they think they will, all that’s been said if the capability has now been demonstrated. And IF they did (they won’t) Europe wouldn’t just sit still. But sure keep making up things people said then blaming it on being American
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TheDecepticonIdeal Mar 21, 2026 +1
Europe couldn’t even unite against Russia. You really think Iran will do that for them?
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uglylilkid Mar 21, 2026 +1
Christian good Muslim bad. See how quickly Europe units against Iran
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TheDecepticonIdeal Mar 21, 2026 +1
Not gonna hold my breath over it
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52-61-64-75 Mar 21, 2026 +1
Eastern Europe has always been known to be within range of the missiles, and has hardly united against Iran
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FeeHot5876 Mar 21, 2026 -1
I get it defending Iran is the cool thing to do. But this isn’t defending itself. Defending itself is shooting down things in its airspace etc. this is an attack just like the US is attacking it. It’s a war, it happens, but stop cheering Iran saying they have the right to do this. Neither country does
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Kursed_Valeth Mar 21, 2026 +1
Attacking the agressor's military and logistics sites is defense. That's how you stop them from continuing to attack you. Defending Iran isn't "the cool thing to do" - defending the target of an unprovoked war of aggression is the right thing to do.
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FeeHot5876 Mar 21, 2026 +1
“Unprovoked” yeah Iran has been totally innocent and never did anything wrong. The right thing to do is say both countries are wrong here. But that’s too hard I guess. “Won’t somebody think of the terrorist state!”
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couldhaveebeen Mar 21, 2026 +1
>“Won’t somebody think of the terrorist state!” This is what you're unironically doing. The US is the terrorist state with its terrorist pet
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FeeHot5876 Mar 21, 2026 +1
We both know Iran is the bigger state sponsor of terrorism and has killed more of its own people than the US
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couldhaveebeen Mar 21, 2026 +1
>We both know Iran is the bigger state sponsor of terrorism Not true at all considering the genocide Israel has been conducting for the last 2 and a half years >has killed more of its own people than the US Lmao
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 21, 2026 +1
So genocidal Israel has the right to defend itself but Iran doesnt .. Ok .. sure thing buddy.
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FeeHot5876 Mar 21, 2026 +1
I wouldn’t say Israel is defending themselves by attacking Iran? What the f*** are you talking about
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aDeepKafkaesqueStare Mar 21, 2026 -7
The iranian regime has no right to exist. Iranian people have the right to defend themselves from the murderous group of terrorists that overtook their government.
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Still-Cash1599 Mar 21, 2026 +6
It's a Mexican standoff since the US and Israel have even worse terrorist governments.
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Living_Young1996 Mar 21, 2026 +4
That's a bold statement. I f****** hate trump, but I'm not so dillusional to think he's worse than the Ayatollah
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Still-Cash1599 Mar 21, 2026
Trump has a child r*** network that dwarfs anything the Ayatollah has ever done
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Dnabb8436 Mar 21, 2026 +1
OK. This is either the most ignorant statement ive ever read or you are just willfully stupid
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TheDecepticonIdeal Mar 21, 2026 +1
You get the government you deserve unfortunately.
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dejavuus Mar 21, 2026 -6
I wonder... Am not Iranian and I am rooting for Iran
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TheDecepticonIdeal Mar 21, 2026 +1
The problem is that Europe can’t really do much about this. If it got involved with Iran, Russia will definitely take advantage of the diverted attention and rush in to take advantage of Ukraine.
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NekoCatSidhe Mar 21, 2026 +1
Well, until they actually start sending missiles towards Europe, that threat is only a potential one. In fact, if that threat is real, it is another good reason for Europe not to join that war and become yet another Iranian target. Not that Iran will actually start targeting European cities. Their strategy here is clear: to make it politically costly for other governments to help the US war on Iran by directly targeting the military bases that other countries are lending to the US to attack them, like in the Gulf. European governments have basically blamed Iran for being attacked while helping with US Army logistics in that war, but refuse to openly join that war because 1) it would be deeply unpopular with their voters, 2) they hate Trump even if they do not want to openly stand up to him by breaking with the US, and 3) that war works against their economic interests by driving high the oil prices. Iran knows that they won't join the war, but doesn't want them to help the US at all, even covertly. Therefore, this kind of attacks: it won't turn European governments against Iran because they are already working against Iran and have for a long time, but it might convince them to not help the US as much as they do. Particularly when doing so is already unpopular among European voters.
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A_Brown_Crayon Mar 21, 2026 -4
Cry about it
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 21, 2026 +1
You clearly havent been doing your homework. The missiles being fired in the *direction* of Diego Garcia does NOT mean the intended target was Diego Garcia.. This is just the US\`s way of saying they were fired *South.* *Welcome to the US/Israeli World of propaganda ..* *Dont help them to make you or anybody else look stupid.* Iran today fired missiles in the direction of Mar-A-Lago .. Its true. i.e. They fired them West.
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 21, 2026 +1
Iranian missiles have a range of just over 1000 miles. Thats all the distance they currently need. & whats more .. Its working.
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