{"id":24233,"date":"2026-03-29T09:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=24233"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:12:31","slug":"european-leaders-now-know-trump-was-right-iran-was-an-imminent-global-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=24233","title":{"rendered":"European Leaders Now Know Trump Was Right: Iran Was an Imminent Global Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(AMERICAN GREATNESS) \u2013 March 20, 2026, marked a turning point in the 2026 Iran war, when Iran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the joint U.K.\u2013U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean. Although both missiles failed to reach their target\u2014one malfunctioned in flight, while the other was successfully intercepted\u2014the attack sent shockwaves through Western Europe.\n<\/p>\n

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This missile proved that the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had lied for years about the true range of Iran\u2019s missile arsenal. Khamenei claimed Iran\u2019s missiles could not threaten beyond the Middle East and their range had been limited to 2,000 kilometers. The attempted strike on Diego Garcia\u2014more than 4,000 kilometers from Iran\u2014proved Iran\u2019s leadership was actually building missiles with far greater ranges capable of striking deep into Europe and hitting major cities like London and Paris.\n<\/p>\n

The missile attack also forced European leaders to accept two broader realities: first, that because this was more evidence that Iranian leaders lie constantly, Khamenei\u2019s so-called \u201cfatwa\u201d prohibiting Iran from developing nuclear weapons was also a lie; and second, that President Trump\u2019s justification for launching the 2026 Iran War\u2014that Iran posed an imminent global threat\u2014had been right all along.\n<\/p>\n

European leaders were in denial about reports over the past 15 years of major advances in the range and sophistication of Iran\u2019s missile arsenal because they foolishly believed Khamenei had capped missile ranges at 2,000 km. This included the advanced Khorramshahr-4 medium-range missile with an estimated range of 2,000\u20133,000 km.\n<\/p>\n

Europe also largely overlooked the implications of Iran\u2019s multi-stage rocket tests, which it claimed were space-launch vehicles but many experts assessed were actually tests to develop long-range ballistic missiles, including ICBMs. Iran\u2019s supposed space-launch rockets, such as the two-stage Simorgh and three-stage Zuljanah, have been estimated to have ranges of 4,000\u20136,000 km. (London is about 4,000 km from western Iran.)\n<\/p>\n

Leaders in the U.K., France, and other Western European states now realize their cities likely are in range of Iranian ballistic missiles, and they lack adequate missile defenses to protect them.\n<\/p>\n

This concern is heightened by Iran\u2019s recent missile barrages against eight Middle Eastern countries, as well as Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Cyprus, over the past three weeks. These attacks suggest Iran had pre-positioned large numbers of missiles across the region. Officials in London and Paris are now left to question whether similar long-range missiles might already be positioned to threaten European targets.\n<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s contention that Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program was an imminent threat is also now harder for European leaders to deny after the missile attack on Diego Garcia.\n<\/p>\n

For years, European leaders and the global foreign policy establishment dismissed the threat from Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program because of Khamenei\u2019s fatwa barring an Iranian nuclear bomb, claims by U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran\u2019s nuclear program was halted in 2003, and repeated promises by Iranian officials that their government had not decided to use their growing nuclear expertise and infrastructure to produce nuclear weapons.\n<\/p>\n

European leaders also joined Democrat politicians in claiming that Tehran had complied with President Obama\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the JCPOA, and that increased threats from Iran\u2019s nuclear program over the past eight years were because President Trump withdrew from this agreement in 2018.\n<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s lies about its missile ranges accentuate the fact that it has also been lying about its nuclear weapons program for years. This was obvious to anyone who looked at the facts.\n<\/p>\n

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  • For example, the Iran Nuclear Archive, a collection of more than 100,000 secret Iranian documents and files on its nuclear weapons program that was stolen from Iran by Israel in 2018, proved that Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program continued after 2003 and involved a systematic effort to conceal nuclear weapons-related activities from IAEA inspectors. The archive also confirmed massive Iranian cheating on the JCPOA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • Iran faced six formal censures from the IAEA Board of Governors between 2020 and 2025 for failing to cooperate with investigations into undeclared nuclear sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • And finally, Iran\u2019s rapid rollout of advanced centrifuges in 2021, enabling enrichment to near-weapons-grade levels of 60 percent U-235, suggested that development of this technology had been underway covertly for years\u2014well before Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Most European leaders ignored these facts and refused to support the 12-Day War against Iran and were more opposed to the 2026 Iran War, claiming these military actions violated international law, were not approved by the UN Security Council, or that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to international security.\n<\/p>\n

        That position has now shifted. After Iran\u2019s missile barrages across the Middle East, its closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and the exposure of its long-range ballistic missile capabilities, European capitals are increasingly concerned about direct threats to their security and economies. They are coming to terms with the reality that President Trump was right: Iran represented a serious and imminent danger.\n<\/p>\n

        It is time for European leaders to move beyond denial and take concrete action. Europe should now stand with the United States and Israel in a coordinated effort to neutralize the threat from Iran\u2019s regime\u2014and help create conditions for the Iranian people to reclaim their country.\n<\/p>\n

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        This article was originally published in American Greatness.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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