Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth has warned that Iran can hit London with missiles, a global threat coming from Tehran that should have more U.S. allies concerned. Hegseth warned about two missiles that Iran fired at the joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia.
The UK government confirmed that both missiles missed their targets, but this has made people even more worried about the threat Iran could pose to Britain itself. The Israeli military has previously claimed that Iranian missiles could achieve a range of around 4,000km, placing numerous countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa at risk.
Without explicitly naming Diego Garcia, Hegseth said: “Two days ago they [Iran] shot two failed missiles on a target 4,000km away. For years, they told the world that their missiles could only range [2,000] kilometres. Surprise. Yet again, Iran lie.”
He continued, “And to the world. I say London is 4,000km from Iran. Washington DC is 3,300km from Venezuela, another country President Trump did something about, which partnered for a long time with Iran. So you’re telling us that Iran is not a threat to the world or to the US? President Trump knows better.”
This comes as Hegseth met his Indonesian counterpart, Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, on Monday to discuss a plan for the United States military to use the Indonesian airspace.
President Trump said on Monday morning that he would blow up any Iranian ships that tried to break his new blockade. The president added that any boats that tried to break it would be “ELIMINATED” in the same way that his administration blew up boats from South America that were thought to be carrying drugs.
In a post on Truth Social, the president shared the news just 23 minutes after he blocked the Strait of Hormuz at 10:00 a.m. ET.
“Iran’s Navy is laying at the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated – 158 ships. What we have not hit are their small number of, what they call, ‘fast attack ships,’ because we did not consider them much of a threat,” Trump posted. “Warning: If any of these ships come anywhere close to our BLOCKADE, they will be immediately ELIMINATED, using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at Sea.”
