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Iran recently fired two missiles at the U.S./U.K. base on Diego Garcia. Thankfully, neither missile was able to hit its mark, but the targeting of a base roughly 2,500 miles from Iran is now raising some concerns.
This means that if Iran has more of these missiles, a number of key European cities—including Rome, London, and Paris—could all be in range of a potential Iranian missile attack. It also leaves a major question open: How did they get such advanced missile technology?
Harry Kazianis with 19fortyfive.com says it likely came from North Korea. “There really is sort of a ‘missile axis of evil’ when it comes to Iran and North Korea,” he explained. “They keep trading missile technology and working on this stuff together.”
He went on to say that knowledge of these more advanced missiles might have been what led to U.S. involvement in Iran. “It explains more and more why President Trump is trying to do something like this,” he said. “We don’t want a giant North Korea in the Middle East powered by petrodollars.”
When it comes to dealing with the issue, Kazianis says we’re going to have to take a long-term approach and use things like sanctions and monitoring to make sure that this Iranian/North Korean missile cooperation isn’t able to continue in the future.