European Leaders Now Know Trump Was Right: Iran Was an Imminent Global Threat

March 20, 2026, marked a turning point in the 2026 Iran war, when Iran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the joint U.K.–U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean. Although both missiles failed to reach their target—one malfunctioned in flight, while the other was successfully intercepted—the attack sent shockwaves through Western Europe.

This missile proved that the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had lied for years about the true range of Iran’s missile arsenal. Khamenei claimed Iran’s missiles could not threaten beyond the Middle East and their range had been limited to 2,000 kilometers. The attempted strike on Diego Garcia—more than 4,000 kilometers from Iran—proved Iran’s leadership was actually building missiles with far greater ranges capable of striking deep into Europe and hitting major cities like London and Paris.

The missile attack also forced European leaders to accept two broader realities: first, that because this was more evidence that Iranian leaders lie constantly, Khamenei’s so-called “fatwa” prohibiting Iran from developing nuclear weapons was also a lie; and second, that President Trump’s justification for launching the 2026 Iran War—that Iran posed an imminent global threat—had been right all along.

European leaders were in denial about reports over the past 15 years of major advances in the range and sophistication of Iran’s missile arsenal because they foolishly believed Khamenei had capped missile ranges at 2,000 km. This included the advanced Khorramshahr-4 medium-range missile with an estimated range of 2,000–3,000 km.