Missiles can reach UK say Iran

[Spinningnewbie]

Just heard this in live interview with Defence Secretary.
Apparently they can reach us in 4 hours.
Are they lying??

Oh good. 🙄

That's a whole 4 hours to shoot them down we should be able to manage that, they have hit more distant targets than the UK already so no doubt they could try.

It depends where they are and the trajectory. Not just a matter of time. It's 1,000 km from Iran to Israel for example.

I don't like to break this to you but Iran hated you before this as well. (The regime, not the lovely people)

Two days ago The Times put up a video of the IDF making the statement ( it’s still available to watch )

Heres a piece from the Independent

Mapped: What countries Iranian missiles could hit after warning they pose ‘global threat’
Housing secretary Steve Reed insists UK has sufficient systems and defences to keep country safe
Holly Evans & Albert Toth
Tuesday 24 March 2026 06:30

Iran has developed long-range missiles capable of reaching major European cities, Israel has warned, after the targeting of the UK-US base on Diego Garcia.
Iran took aim at the military base on the Chagos Islands before the UK government gave the US permission to strike missile sites targeting the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, but it is not clear exactly when the two intermediate-range ballistic missiles were fired.

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said it was the first time Tehran had launched a long-range missile since the start of the war, and showed it is now capable of reaching cities such as London, Paris or Berlin.
“We have been saying it: the Iranian terrorist regime poses a global threat,” the IDF said in a statement.’

The IRGC looks reasonable?

Not what you said it was.

ANway, Israel has the best intellgience on Iran of any country around. Mainly because it's a regime hated by its own people so not hard to recruit spies and agents.

Haven't heard what DefSec has said but anyone who claims it inevitably takes four hours for a ballistic missile to fly from Iran to the UK needs to go back to school and redo their Physics...

It's just about possible if Iran launched something in a very lofted, very inefficient trajectory but there would be no point.

I wonder what the DefSec really meant?

No Iranian missile hit Diego Garcia.

US & UK have both claimed Iran fired two missiles at DG, one malfunctioned and disintegrated, the other was intercepted by a missile launched from a US vessel.

Iran has categorically denied firing anything at DG.

It’s exactly what I said
and
Agree
Im sure Israel has spies everywhere, especially in countries they attack
like Iran and I’m sure all over Gaza and the West Bank

Meanwhile
The threat of bombs hitting the U.K. by Iran is more than likely scaremongering by Israel to get others to join in this illegal war.

So why is the IDF scaremongering the U.K. and other countries

mm …interesting isn’t it
Or rather so so predictable

Good point

Israel talk even more shit than Iran does, 2nd only to the grand master of bullshit, potus. Of course they want us to think that, they're trying to justify their actions in attacking Iran. They want us to join in.

I'm not saying they definitely don't, but I'm skeptical. They couldn't even reach Diego Garcia without gunning out of fuel.

This is useful and pretty clear.

I won’t summarise people can read it. I don’t think they can now but don’t want to see what they’d do if they could at any time.

Looking at recent News
and I will say it’s surprising how our own papers have very little on this

but
Iran denied launching missiles on Diego Garcia and the UN cannot confirm which US warship hit one down ( there’s no evidence ) or indeed whether the missiles even came from Iran

Id also love to know why in terms of headlines this controversy isn’t coming up as headline News in the U.K.

TBH I think it's odd some seem to have only picked up on this story and almost proclaimed it as new and from the IDF today when it all over the news at the weekend, including the hints Iran could hit the UK. Indeed it was a subject the housing Minister blathered on about (badly and inaccurately) on Laura K's show Sunday AM.

Given the Blair legacy there's no way the UK is joining in with offensive action, and we don't really have the means to do so anyway.

OTOH some in HMG probably would quite like to bury the story because it exposes the UKs lack of appropriate defences.....they really don't want to talk about that.

I don't think israel like wasting their own people in these proxy wars. They like others to do it for them and foot the bill.

Yes this has been in the press in the U.K. anyway, after the DG attempt.

Because it is. And they’re looking pretty foolish given that these two “superpowers” are constantly begging all the countries they have been disparaging for years to now come to their aid. And now trying to manipulate other countries to join the fray by spreading lies and propaganda. It’s pathetic.

They probably can. But why woukd they bother. There's pleny of places they can hit to enrage Nato closer.

And in those 4 hours we sit there going What a shame... or do we send anti-missiles up? It's not going to arrive as a surprise.

Our technology is beyond what they have.

😂It's illegal because it is 😂
No, things aren't illegal just because you want them to be. It doesn't work like that.
Name me one country Israel has disparaged that it is begging to come to its aid? Or any country Israel has begged? It has the US by its side which has never happened before like that, that's enough of a win for Israel.
I think you are actually believing your own propaganda.

Can you give an example of an Israeli proxy war?
I mean, Iran has proxies that it directly funds and controls like Hezbollah, Houthis, militias in Iraq, the so-called "Axis of Resistance".
Can you give an example of Israel having anyone fight a proxy war and foot the bill? Or do you just like meaningless rhetoric?

So the bbc article posted upthread says

‘Tehran has previously stated it had unilaterally limited the range of its missiles to 2,000km. But Israel now claims that Iranian missiles have double that range – up to 4,000km. That would put not just Diego Garcia in its sights, but also much of mainland Europe’

Meanwhile The bbc article sites doubts on the range of Irans missile capabilities

The Times has an article with much the same statement re Irans range by the IDF more recently

Maps have been posted showing graphically this information

The air distance from Bakhtaran (now known as
Kermanshah) which is a missile base in western Iran to London, UK, is approximately 3,800 to 4,000 kilometers

There is as yet no evidence that Iran shot any missiles at DG to start this rumour of Irans long range capabilities and
No evidence that the US shot any down

Whats it all about
Israeli spin
or no one knows whose shooting at what

The UK’s air defenses against ballistic missiles are wafer thin. They depend on 6 Type 45 RN destroyers, half of which are typically not operational due to maintenance requirements.

In the event of an attack, one of the operational destroyers would have to be in a location that made interception possible, and have sufficient warning to be ready for it. Even with under the best possible conditions, interception is challenging and not certain.

UK goverment says it was Iran.
I mean honestly to doubt the UK governemnt in favour of the Iranian regime is just mindblowing.

Iran also denied its drone attack on Azerbaijan which the Azerbaijani government said was Iran.

Oh, and Iran also denies murdering 30,000 of its own population. They were all mossad and CIA apparently.