Iran recently fired two ballistic missiles toward the joint U.S.-U.K. military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
About Diego Garcia:
Location: It is a coral atoll located in the central Indian Ocean.
It is the largest and southernmost member of the Chagos Archipelago.
It is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and accounts for more than half the land area.
It was discovered by the Portuguese in the early 16th century, it was for most of its history a dependency of Mauritius.
In 1965 it was separated from Mauritius as part of the newly created BIOT.
In 1966, the UK leased Diego Garcia to the US to create an air and naval base. For constructing the defence installation, the inhabitants of the island were forcibly removed.
Diego Garcia is the United States’ major geostrategic and logistics support base in the Indian Ocean.
A non-binding 2019 UN General Assembly vote demanded that Britain end its “colonial administration” of the Chagos Archipelago and that it be returned to Mauritius.
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