Iran mulls preemptive strike on US base after Trump bomb threats

Iranian military commanders are considering an attack on a joint U.S.-U.K. base in the Indian Ocean in a show of force to deter President Trump from bombing Tehran.

"Deception is a propaganda tool used to bolster deterrence and prevent a conventionally weak regime from having to fight," he added. "By threatening everywhere, the regime hopes to have to fight nowhere – meaning its revolutionary foreign policy gets to remain uncontested. Caitlin McFall is a Reporter at Fox News Digital covering Politics, U.S. and World news.

Fox News Digital has not been able to independently confirm the threat of attack on the Diego Garcia base, positioned some 2,400 miles south of Iran, but experts on Iranian security have been sounding the alarm that Tehran likely has, if not direct missile capabilities, options to position its arms that will enable it to hit U.S. strategic interests farther away.