Iran Attacks US Base In Jordan, Ships Near Hormuz After Tankers Sunk
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it fired ballistic missiles at a base in Jordan used by the U.S. military and attacked 10 ships on Wednesday.
This came after the U.S. said it had destroyed five Iranian oil tankers on Tuesday in a sharp escalation of the six-month-old war.
Although Iran said its missiles inflicted heavy damage, Jordan said its air defences intercepted 18 of the 20 Iranian missiles, with two falling in unpopulated areas, and that there were no casualties.
A U.S. official said Iran’s strikes in Jordan were ineffective and all American troops were accounted for.
Increased attacks by both the U.S. and Iran have shattered a month of relative calm, hitting military, shipping and energy assets and drawing in regional allies in recent days.
The U.S. military’s Central Command posted video of the strikes, which it called a response to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeting a U.S. Navy warship twice with ballistic missiles over the previous two days.
Iran has targeted U.S. assets and allies in the region throughout the war, including in Jordan several times, killing at least two U.S. military personnel during one strike in July.
