Hostilities between the U.S. and Iran continued to escalate on Tuesday night, as the U.S. destroyed five Iranian oil tankers, and Iran retaliated by attacking numerous civilian vessels and launching missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan. The benchmark price of oil rose above $100 per barrel for the first time since July amid the escalation.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed U.S. pilots were killed in counterattacks against the U.S. targeting neighboring Arab states on Tuesday.
The U.S. military struck two Iranian government tankers Tuesday under a new “tanker for tanker” policy approved by President Donald Trump to retaliate for Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that Iran could be “totally wiped out as a country” if it continued its attacks on U.S. forces, as Tehran launched a new ballistic missile barrage targeting American military facilities in Jordan following a wave of U.S. strikes on Iran.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the alleged “supreme leader” of Iran who has yet to be seen in public since being proclaimed the head of his country’s government, took the opportunity of the anniversary of the birthday of Muhammad to complain that “West Asian” Muslim states had shown insufficient “unity” against America and Israel.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is subservient to missing “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei, held an expected, but apparently brief, meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Tuesday, one that state media coverage suggests Xi had little interest in holding.
President Donald Trump signaled Monday that renewed U.S. military action against Iran would remain limited but warned Washington could still “smack” the Islamic Republic again, as he weighs a plan for additional strikes around the Strait of Hormuz following Tehran’s attack on American forces in Jordan.
President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a ten-second A.I.-generated video of Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal being “blown to smithereens,” as he put it, shortly after the first U.S. airstrikes against Iran in a month. None of the actual strikes was confirmed to have targeted Kharg Island.
President Donald Trump declared Iran to be a “Failed Nation” and continued to criticize Iranian leadership for being “in total disarray” and being “incapable” of representing Iranian citizens.
Iran launched ballistic missiles and drones at U.S. forces in Jordan late Sunday, hours after the U.S. struck Iranian forces preparing to deploy sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, reigniting direct fighting between Washington and Tehran after a monthlong lull.
China’s communist dictator Xi Jinping welcomed King Abdullah II of Jordan to Beijing on Monday, eagerly encouraging him to accept greater Chinese involvement in Jordan’s economy and help promote trade deals with fellow Middle Eastern countries.
President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered a new round of strikes against Iran that could begin as soon as this weekend as Tehran threatens sweeping retaliation.
The United States on Wednesday night launched another round of heavy airstrikes against Iran, which apparently sought to widen the war by attacking an Egyptian port with a kamikaze drone.
Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to have killed “several” Americans during a bombing of Jordan overnight into Thursday and destroyed three fighter jets — a report the Jordanian government appeared to deny, as it reported only that it had intercepted missiles that ultimately caused no harm.
The U.S. military launched a round of strikes against Iran Wednesday evening after President Donald Trump vowed to hit the Islamic Republic “very hard” in response to Iran’s attempted ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan the previous day.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked the CENTCOM headquarters of the US military in Jordan with ballistic missiles.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned that the U.S. is going to “beat the f*cking sh*t” out of Iran following its attack on U.S. forces in Jordan.
Iran claims it remains firmly in control of the Strait of Hormuz and has no desire to resume negotiations with the United States.
The U.S. military carried out a 13th consecutive night of strikes against Iran early Friday, targeting military command centers, drone facilities, communications networks, and maritime capabilities. The action came as President Donald Trump said he was weighing a “massive attack bigger than anything before” while Tehran rejected a U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal and warned the conflict could expand further across the region.
President Donald Trump attended on Wednesday the dignified transfer of the four service members killed in the Middle East over the weekend.
Iran’s attacks on neighboring countries are causing massive disruptions of commerce and travel in Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, from reduced oil exports to canceled airline flights, even though most of Iran’s missiles and drones have been intercepted.
President Donald Trump pledged Monday that Iran will pay “many times over” for each American service member it kills.
The United States broadened the scale and scope of its strikes against Iran on Monday, hitting a variety of targets including military bases, air defense systems and a city hosting a nuclear power plant.
President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States had struck Iran “very hard” in honor of three American servicemembers killed in recent days, as U.S. Central Command announced it had successfully completed a ninth consecutive evening of strikes targeting Iran’s military infrastructure and its ability to attack commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Two U.S. service members were killed and one remains missing after Iran struck American forces in Jordan, U.S. Central Command said Saturday.
Iran claims it attacked a U.S. position in eastern Syria early Friday morning. If true, it would mark the first Iranian attack on Syria.
The family of the suspect in the killing of an American mother in Ireland this month has complained of “racist” and “negative” comments online about their son, who has been arrested in his native Jordan.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi insisted on Tuesday that Iran’s military and civilian government are acting in “full coordination during wartime,” despite earlier reports that the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) acted on its own initiative to scuttle the ceasefire with the United States by attacking civilian ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Bahrain Defense Force (BDF) said on Monday that its air defenses “successfully intercepted and destroyed several treacherous Iranian aerial attacks.”
The boyfriend who fled Ireland following the killing of American woman Jamey Carney was previously refused asylum in the country, reports claim.
A series of mysterious explosions were heard across Iran on Thursday, even though the U.S. said no strikes were launched after two nights of heavy bombing on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Jordanian state media on Thursday reported that eight to ten missiles launched by Iran were intercepted within Jordan’s airspace, while Qatar reported drone attacks.
A three year-old Venezuelan boy was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building by Jordanian emergency workers on Tuesday — six days after the devastating earthquakes that struck the South American nation.
The Iranian military on Thursday threatened to continue attacking American targets in the Middle East, and demanded a halt to President Donald Trump’s threats of further U.S. military action.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denied a report that Iran used a Chinese-built spy satellite to target American military bases for missile and drone attacks during Operation Epic Fury.
Iran demanded “compensation” from five Middle Eastern countries it has been bombing since early March in a letter to the UN.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Wednesday that Ukrainian anti-drone personnel were deployed to the Middle East nations attacked by Iran during Operation Epic Fury, and were able to counter Iran’s Shahed drones with their own interceptor technology.
The Iranian terror regime struck seven different neighboring countries with missiles and drones following the launch of America’s “Operation Epic Fury,” reports as of Saturday night Washington, DC, time indicated.
Saudi Arabia on Saturday morning strongly condemned Iranian missile attacks against U.S. bases hosted by their Gulf allies, and threatened to take actions if Iran continues violating their sovereignty.
U.S. Central Command announced it has “completed the orderly departure of U.S. forces from al-Tanf Garrison in Syria.”
