The base, Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands, is 2,500 miles from Tehran and far from the Middle East, where Iran has been attacking Israel and Persian Gulf countries with drones and missiles in retaliation for U.

The US Navy has recently selected a subsidiary of technology company Palladyne AI to

Iran’s Minister of Intelligence Esmaeil Khatib was killed overnight in a precision strike, a senior Israeli official said. His targeting was a joint U.S. and Israeli effort as Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion continue.

The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency called for "maximum military restraint" following the strikes.

President Donald Trump said he was considering “winding down” US military efforts against Iran, saying that the US was close to achieving its objectives as the conflict, which has roiled financial markets and the region,

The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday that it struck "several infrastructure sites located within a large-scale ballistic missiles array site in western Iran." (Credit: IDF)