“Where is your nearest air raid shelter? And how long would it take you to get there? If you live in the UK, you probably can’t answer these questions,” The Spectator tells its readers on Monday, March 23.
Two days earlier, Iranian missiles targeted the Diego Garcia island, a British Overseas Territory located in the Indian Ocean, 4,000 kilometers from Tehran. “One of the two missiles did not reach the island and the other was shot down by an American ship,” notes The Guardian. “This is the longest-range attack carried out by Iran since the beginning of the war led by the United States and Israel,” reports the London newspaper.
“The capacity to reach the heart of Europe”
And suddenly, the British press is seized with doubt: London, too, is about 4,000 kilometers from Iranian territory. At the beginning of the month, Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, had stated that his country deliberately limited the range of its missiles to 2,000 kilometers, as they did not want “to be perceived as a threat by anyone in the world,” as recalled by The Daily Telegraph. However, on Friday, March 20, Araghchi warned UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, stating that he would
