The Journal reports that the Iranians fired two missiles at the base in recent days. One fell short and U.S. forces fired a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptor at another. The launch is “the furthest ever attempted Iranian missile strike,” the Institute for the Study of War notes. “The attack demonstrated that Iranian missiles can reach beyond the 2,000-kilometer limit that the regime has long claimed to have self-imposed.” Diego Garcia is about double that distance from Iran.