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Esmaeil Baghaei denies the long-range missile attack, which could change the calculus of the war for US allies.

The Government finally admitted that missiles had been fired at Diego Garcia more than 30 hours after the attempted strike - and only after it had been confirmed by US officials.

Whether it was a dramatic one-off or a warning, Iran's launch of two missiles across 2,000 miles towards Diego Garcia, Britain's territory, should have been a wake-up call for our government.

Europe, UK are not directly involved in the war. Iran is unlikely to want to change that.

'As the prime minister has made clear we will provide defensive support against these reckless Iranian threats but we have not been -- and we continue not to be -- involved in offensive action.'

The UK has given US forces the green light to run 'defensive' operations from its military sites, such as Diego Garcia.

UK condemns what it says is Iranian attack on airbase in Indian Ocean, but Tehran denies it carried out the launches.

Diego Garcia is about 2,360 miles away from Iran and home to a base capable of accommodating long-range US bombers and navy ships.

Iran fired the two missiles at the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean but they failed to reach their target, U.K. minister says.