Iran ‘has everyone in their sights’ and can hit London with new missiles in chilling warning

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken about Iran

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran has “everyone in their sights” – and that the regime can hit ‘deep into Europe’.

The Israeli military began what it called “a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting Iranian terror regime infrastructure” early on Monday. As US President Donald Trump’s deadline on opening the Strait of Hormuz approaches, Iran on Monday threatened to attack Middle East electrical plants powering American military bases.

Tehran warned it could attack US and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets if Israel or the US attempted to follow through on President Trump’s threat that the US would “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it did not fully open the Strait of Hormuz.

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Mr Trump — who is facing increasing pressure at home to secure the strait as oil prices soar — issued the ultimatum in a social media post while he spent the weekend at his Florida home.

A statement from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, read out on state television on Monday morning, marks the latest attempt by Tehran to try to explain its attacks on the Gulf Arab countries.

“What we have done is to announce our decision that if the power plants are attacked, Iran will retaliate by targeting the power plants of the occupying regime and the power plants of regional countries that supply electricity to US bases, as well as the economic, industrial and energy infrastructures in which Americans have shares,” the statement said, referring to Israel as an “occupying regime.”

“Do not doubt that we will do this.”

The US president wrote on his Truth Social website early on Monday: “PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, TO PUT IT MILDLY!!!”

Earlier, Israel’s military said it detected missiles launched from Iran toward central Israel and parts of the occupied West Bank.

And the latest escalation in conflict comes after it was revealed Iran had launched missile attacks on the UK-US base of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands, 3,800km away.

Government ministers have said the UK will not be dragged into a wider war in the Middle East, but Iran’s missile attack on the joint US-UK base has demonstrated that Europe could now be within reach.

And at the weekend, Mr Netanyahu told reporters: “I’ve been warning all the time. They have now the capacity to reach deep into Europe.

“They already have fired on a European country, Cyprus. They are putting everyone in their sights.”

One of the Iranian missiles was shot down by a US warship while the other failed in flight, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) declined to comment on when the attack was launched. It is not clear exactly when the two intermediate-range ballistic missiles were fired.

But the news emerged after the Government gave the US permission to strike missile sites targeting the Strait of Hormuz on Friday.

And following Sir Keir Starmer’s decision, an Iranian minister warned British lives are now ‘in danger’. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reacted angrily on social media, claiming that the Prime Minister is putting British lives at risk by allowing UK territory to be used for “aggression.”

He insisted that Iran would exercise its right to self-defence, a sentiment that follows a previous Iranian drone strike on RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus earlier this month.

And on X on Saturday evening, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), who are leading Israel’s attacks on Iran, claimed the state had missiles ‘that threatened Europe’.

In a post on X, the IDF said: “The Iranian terrorist regime launched a long-range missile for the first time since the start of Operation Roaring Lion that could reach a distance of ~4,000 km.

“During Operation Rising Lion in June 2025, the IDF revealed that the Iranian regime has intentions to develop missiles with a range of 4,000 km, which pose a danger to dozens of countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. The Iranian regime denied this. We have been saying it: The Iranian terrorist regime poses a global threat.

“Now, with missiles that can reach London, Paris or Berlin. The Iranian terror regime has carried out attacks against 12 countries in the region and is developing a capability that poses a much broader threat.”