It is being reported in various locations that Iran launched an attack on the joint U.K./U.S. base at Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean. They fired two intermediate range ballistic missiles at the base.
One failed in flight, another was attacked by an anti-air missile fired by a US Navy ship. Neither reached the target, which is 2400 miles from Iran. It was not previously known that Iran had operational weapons of this range.
Such weapons threaten many targets in Europe, Africa, and India. Combine these missiles with the crude nuke Iran could possibly cobble together and you've got a threat to much of the world.
This certainly makes fools of those who claimed Iran was no threat. The threat is real, and it's in a region that produces martyrdom-seeking suicide bombers. Who's to say they won't try to revenge themselves on, for example, Rome and the Vatican, in addition to Tel Aviv?
You can't build ballistic missiles in a blacksmith shop. We need to keep bombing until their industrial capacity is destroyed. Instead of a ceasefire, we may need to go back periodically and "mow the grass*," - get rid of whatever they've rebuilt until they're ready to "play nice."
*An Israeli term of art for periodic attacks to keep an enemy weak, originally applied to Gaza.
