Kmflett's Blog

Both the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times lead with stories that Iran may have missiles that could hit European Capitals including London.

The story is based on reports of Iranian missiles which were fired (but intercepted) at the US/UK base on Diego Garcia which is around 2,000 miles from Iran.

There is no actual evidence that Iran has missiles that could hit Western Europe or that it intends to do so. The story was bigged up by the Israelis no doubt with the intention of drawing European countries into that country’s never ending wars.

Fortunately the lessons of 2003 seems to have been learnt (for the moment) and the Government has said there is no basis for the story

No assessment Iran capable of striking London, Steve Reed says – BBC News

In 2002/3 the infamous dodgy dossier claimed that Iraq had weapons that it could use in 45 minutes (not at Europe) and the S*n made up a story that it had missiles that could hit the British base on Cyprus.

The fog of war as usual allows such stories to flourish and its unlikely to be the last that we hear of this one..