Diego Garcia is critical to American national security

With the launch of two ballistic missiles at the joint United States–United Kingdom military base on Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, Iran demonstrated beyond a shadow of doubt that it is an imminent threat to the U.S. and its allies. The missiles showed that a terrorist-sponsored, fanatical West-hating regime has the ability to hit targets as far away as Europe.

But the Islamic missile launch has done something else. It has underlined how essential the Chagos Islands, which include Diego Garcia, are to American security and to the West generally. Accordingly, the possibility that the government of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer might give the archipelago away is alarming and must be stopped.