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Iran Is a Direct Threat to Britain - It's Time to Act Like It
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Editorial - After Iran fired two missiles at Diego Garcia, the joint UK-U.S. base in the Indian Ocean 4,000 km. from Iran, the attack suggests that most of Europe, including London, are now within the regime's expanding reach, as Israeli officials have warned. Steve Reed, a cabinet minister, noted that one missile failed and the other was intercepted, concluding that Britain possesses "perfectly adequate resources" to keep itself safe. This risks mistaking good fortune for sound strategy. A policy premised on continued Iranian technical failures and successful interception hardly constitutes robust defense planning. Iran has long called not just for the death of the U.S. and Israel but for Britain too. Wishful thinking, or waiting for a threat to mature fully before responding, is not prudence; it is negligence. The Islamic Republic is pursuing intercontinental missile capability that serves no purpose against Israel or the Gulf states but would put Europe, the UK and the U.S. within its reach. It also sustains a network of terror proxies and operatives extending far beyond the Middle East.