Iran mulls preemptive strike on US base after Trump bomb threats

Iranian subject commanders are considering a preemptive onslaught connected a associated U.S.-U.K. basal connected the Chagos Island located successful the Indian Ocean successful an evident effort to deter President Donald Trump from launching a subject onslaught connected Iran, a study by the Telegraph archetypal said.

"Like immoderate Iranian subject threat, the creation is to find what is bluster and what is real," Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran adept and elder chap astatine the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked astir the strategy down the alleged threats against the U.S. base.

"Deception is simply a propaganda instrumentality utilized to bolster deterrence and forestall a conventionally anemic authorities from having to fight," helium added. "By threatening everywhere, the authorities hopes to person to combat obscurity – meaning its revolutionary overseas argumentation gets to stay uncontested.

A large banner depicting Iran's ultimate person is placed adjacent to a ballistic rocket successful Baharestan Square successful Tehran, Iran, connected Sept. 26, 2024. (Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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Fox News Digital has not been capable to independently corroborate the menace of onslaught connected the Diego Garcia base, positioned immoderate 2,400 miles southbound of Iran, but experts connected Iranian information person been sounding the alarm that Tehran apt has, if not nonstop rocket capabilities, options to presumption its arms that volition alteration it to deed U.S. strategical interests farther away. 

Iran has a "self-imposed" scope of astir 1,200 miles connected its ballistic capabilities, though it is suspected that the IRGC has a ballistic onslaught capableness of hitting up to 1,800 miles distant utilizing its Khorramshahr-2 medium-range ballistic missile, Ben Taleblu explained successful a station connected X.

Tehran besides has the updated mentation of the rocket known arsenic Khorramshahr-4, besides referred to arsenic the Kheibar missile, which is suspected of being capable to transcend Iran’s different onslaught scope options, though the grade of its capabilities has not been afloat tested. 

But adjacent if it is incapable of hitting a U.S. people immoderate 2,400 miles from its astir confederate border, Iran has proven it is crafty erstwhile it comes to expanding its onslaught scope – including done the usage of merchant ships and lipid tankers converted to warships to grow its long-range onslaught capabilities.

Even if it is incapable of hitting a U.S. people immoderate 2,400 miles from its astir confederate border, Iran has proven it is crafty erstwhile it comes to expanding its onslaught range. (Eric Travers/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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"There’s ever the accidental of utilizing a foreign-procured instrumentality launched cruise rocket from adjacent an unconverted tanker oregon commercialized vas astatine sea," Ben Taleblu explained successful his post, referring to its usage of some Russian and Chinese procured cruise missiles pursuing its warfare with Iraq successful the 1980s.

In addition, Iran could again crook to its adjacent ties to violent networks to transportation rocket capabilities to war-torn areas similar Yemen, which could alteration it to onslaught further southbound into the Indian Ocean by immoderate 800 miles. 

"While each these options would marque Iran’s motorboat platforms, particularly astatine sea, casual targets for a counterstrike, they mean that Tehran does person options to onslaught further afield than expected," Ben Taleblu said. 

Trump successful caller days has accrued his threats against Iran and warned determination could beryllium nonstop struggle if it doesn’t halt arming the Houthi violent group, oregon halt its atomic program. 

But it remains unclear astatine what level the U.S. would respond to a nonstop onslaught connected its military, which could beryllium catastrophic for Tehran fixed its revealed defence capabilities erstwhile faced with strikes from Israel. 

A protester holds a exemplary of a Houthi rocket during a objection against Israel's continued warfare connected the Gaza Strip, and the U.S.-led airstrikes and sanctions against the Houthi radical successful Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 16, 2024. (Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua via Getty Images)

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Iran connected Monday besides filed a missive of ailment with the United Nations Security Council implicit Trump’s "reckless and belligerent" threats and described them arsenic "a flagrant usurpation of planetary law."

According to a study by Reuters, Iran's U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said Tehran "strongly warns against immoderate subject adventurism and volition respond swiftly and decisively to immoderate enactment of aggression oregon onslaught by the United States oregon its proxy, the Israeli regime, against its sovereignty, territorial integrity, oregon nationalist interests."