President Trump’s comments regarding the island’s potential use in a strike on Iran show the island’s continued importance in projecting US power in the Indian Ocean region – even in a rapidly changing strategic environment.

American forces mounted an operation to seize a sanctioned oil vessel in the Indian Ocean from the Diego Garcia military base, The Telegraph can disclose.

The island, Diego Garcia, is not a tourist paradise but one of the most strategically important military bases in the world — and at the centre of a controversial deal involving the UK, Mauritius, and

US president had recently said the plan was the best deal Starmer could make