Ballistic missiles fly at US base from Iran in dramatic escalation

Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-British military base in the Indian Ocean, in a dramatic escalation that revealed Tehran's weapons can reach far beyond what its own foreign minister claimed last month, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Neither missile hit the remote island base, which hosts American bombers, nuclear submarines and guided-missile destroyers roughly 4,000 kilometers from Iran. One failed in flight, and a U.S. warship fired an SM-3 interceptor at the other.