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


March 21 (Reuters) - ⁠Iran fired ⁠two ballistic missiles at ‌the U.S.-U.K. military base Diego Garcia in the ​Indian Ocean, the ⁠semi-official Mehr ⁠news agency reported on ⁠Saturday.

The ‌Wall Street Journal ⁠reported earlier that Iran had ​launched ‌two intermediate-range ballistic missiles ⁠toward ​the base but that they did ⁠not hit it.

Mehr ​said targeting the base was a "significant step ... ⁠that shows that the range of Iran's missiles is beyond ​what ⁠the enemy previously imagined".

(Reporting ​by Hatem ‌Maher and ​Ahmed Tolba; Editing by William Mallard)

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