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U.S. Strikes Iran in Retaliation for Jordan Attack
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In Short: The U.S. military launched strikes against Iran in response to an attempted missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan, targeting Iranian military facilities and causing injuries in Iran and damage in Egypt.
The U.S. military announced it had completed a series of strikes against Iran in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan, according to AP News. Over two hours, the U.S. struck dozens of targets belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, including military command centers and missile and drone facilities.
Iranian state media reported that two people were injured in attacks on the island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz and explosions were also reported in Khuzestan province. Drone strikes also ignited fires on two natural gas vessels at the Egyptian port of Damietta, according to a British maritime security firm.
Jordan's military said five Iranian missiles had been intercepted and destroyed. The U.S. military later announced that American and Saudi fighter aircraft had struck multiple logistics and weapons sites in eastern Iraq in response to alleged drone attacks on Saudi Arabia.
The Popular Mobilization Forces, an Iraqi militia, reported that at least 20 fighters were killed and 32 wounded in the overnight strikes, with six Iranian advisers also killed, according to two Iraqi militia officials.
Background
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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- BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military said early Thursday it had completed “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan.
- Central Command said in a social media post that over two hours the U.S. struck “dozens” of targets belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, including military command centers as well as missile and drone…
- Iranian state media said two people were injured in attacks on the island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz and that explosions were also reported in Khuzestan province to the northwest.
- Elsewhere, drone strikes ignited fires on two natural gas vessels at the Egyptian port of Damietta, according to British maritime security firm Ambrey.
- AP correspondent Karen Chammas reports Iranian missiles launched at Jordan have been intercepted.
- An umbrella group of Iraqi militias initially denied the allegations, while another Iran-backed group — the Houthi rebels in Yemen — said they had attacked Saudi energy facilities as part of a separate but related…
- They said the Saudi decision to join the U.S. attacks against the Iraqi militias was meant to send a message to Iran that it wouldn’t tolerate Iran or its proxies targeting the Saudi oil industry and other critical…
- Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it fired missiles Tuesday at Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, a key U.S. military hub for the region, in a statement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency.