This article has been with us for the past few weeks, awaiting a suitable news peg. This morning, following a Washington Post report alleging that Iran attempted to target Diego Garcia — the controversial U.S. military base located on one of the 58 islands of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean — we felt it was timely to publish it. The piece offers our readers important context on the base and the ongoing dispute over its sovereignty, which international bodies have deemed unlawful under U.K. administration and where the U.S.–U.K. partnership remains deeply contested.
