Israel says attacks against Iran will ‘increase significantly’ next week; Britain condemns Tehran targeting Diego Garcia air base
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Israel threatens increased attacks on Iran as Britain condemns Tehran's attempted strike on Diego Garcia air base.
Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened a surge in attacks against Iran on Saturday (March 21, 2026), and Britain condemned Iran for targeting a joint U.K.-U.S. base in the Indian Ocean as the war in West Asia entered its fourth week.
The Iranian attack on the Diego Garcia air base — located about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometres) from Iran — suggested Tehran has in its stockpile missiles that can go far further than it had previously acknowledged.
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Also on Saturday (March 21, 2026), Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment facility was hit in an airstrike, an official Iranian news agency reported, saying there was no radiation leakage.
Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a video statement that next week, “the intensity of the attacks” by Israel and the United States against Iran's ruling theocracy will “increase significantly.” He spoke shortly after fragments from an Iranian missile slammed into an empty kindergarten near Tel Aviv.
Israeli army spokesman Nadav Shoshani posted a video on X of the kindergarten building; no casualties were reported as the place was empty at the time.
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