[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Fears are growing over Iran's ability to strike deep inside Europe with suicide drones and missiles amid warnings that terror sleeper cells could unleash chaos across the continent at any moment.
The war in the Middle East intensified on Monday, with attacks from Iran and Iranian-backed militias hitting Israel and the Arab states.
Worries over a potential Iranian strike further into Europe come after an Iranian drone struck a British RAF base in Cyprus overnight, in a conflict that began with the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the weekend.
For years, Iran has been working to increase the range of these projectiles, and the most lethal is believed to be the Khorramshahr 4 missile.
It has a range of 2,000 to 3,000km and carries a 1,500kg warhead, according to the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, a US-based think tank.
It can be launched in volleys, and if used, the missiles could reach a large swathe of Europe, including Greece, Italy, Germany, Poland and Denmark.
| This has been long known. The targets just hoped they could seduce Iran into using up their supply on Israel and American military targets in the Middle East. Ditto for the sleeper cells and local Jewish targets. |
Dr. Sidharth Kaushal, a senior research fellow at RUSI, told the Daily Mail that the Khorramshahr is a 'derivative' of a North Korean ballistic missile.
He said: 'It was always speculated that this would have been the delivery vehicle for a nuclear warhead if the Iranians had ever developed one.'
Shahed suicide drones, with a range of 2,000km, could also strike parts of Europe, while an array of missiles with ranges of about 1,200 to 1,500km have already been reaching countries across the Middle East, such as Israel, the UAE and Bahrain.
These another layer of pressure to its potential targets. |