U.S. carries out new strikes on Iran after Trump threatened "a beating"

The U.S. carried out strikes on Iran Thursday morning, hours after President Trump told reporters the U.S. would "be hitting them very hard" in response to new attacks by Iran targeting U.S.

forces in the Mideast. Hours later, Jordan shot down five missiles launched from Iran, Jordan's state-run news agency said. At least 20 people were killed in joint U.S.-Saudi strikes on Iranian-backed forces in Iraq, an umbrella paramilitary group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces said Wednesday.

Central Command said U.S. and Saudi forces conducted strikes late Tuesday on Iranian proxies in Iraq, the first confirmed attacks by a Gulf state during the war. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said Thursday that two oil tankers attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz with U.S.

support turned back after one of them caught fire. "Last night, two oil tankers, encouraged by American aircraft, attempted to leave through the unsafe southern route of the Strait of Hormuz," the Guards said in a statement. "After a major fire broke out on one of them, both vessels quickly turned back." Iran has kept control of the strait since the outbreak of the war in the Middle East on Feb.

28. It has since insisted that ships in the waterway crucial for energy trade should cross through a route designated by Iran after requesting permission and paying service fees. On Thursday, the powerful Guard reiterated that the strait is "our territory" and "cannot be reopened as long as the excessive rhetoric and threats of American officials and their interference in maritime movements in the region continue." https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz/#post-update-bda5fd2a link copied Jordan's air defenses shot down five missiles launched from Iran Thursday morning, the country's state-run Petra news agency said, hours after the U.S.

military announced it had completed "a heavy wave of strikes against Iran" in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan. No casualties were reported from Jordan's interception of the missiles, the news agency quoted the spokesman for the country's armed forces as saying.

The U.S. Central Command said in a social media post that for over two hours, the U.S. had struck "dozens" of targets belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, including military command centers as well as missile and drone facilities, and coastal surveillance and defense sites.

The new strikes came hours after President Trump vowed to hit Iran "very hard" after it targeted a base in Jordan that hosts U.S. troops. The latest barrage came after the U.S.

partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Iran-backed militias in neighboring Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters and six Iranian advisers on Wednesday. https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz/#post-update-11622651 link copied The U.S. concluded Wednesday night's strikes against Iran at around 10 p.m.

ET, U.S. Central Command said. "CENTCOM assets struck dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran, including military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defense sites, and maritime capabilities," CENTCOM said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz/#post-update-f9375c68 link copied The U.S. military struck locations around Iran's Qeshm Island and the southwestern city of Abadan, Iranian media reported on Thursday, local time, citing regional authorities. "A point near Qeshm was attacked by the American enemy military," said Ahmad Nafisi, the deputy governor of the southern Hormozgan province, according to news agency Mehr.

Qeshm Island is located in the Strait of Hormuz and has been frequently targeted by the U.S. since the war began. Fars news agency, citing the deputy governor of Khuzestan, said, "Points around Abadan city were attacked by missiles." https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz/#post-update-fc8e9035 link copied The U.S.

began launching a new round of strikes on Iran around 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, U.S. Central Command said.

"The strikes are a powerful response to yesterday's attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces based in the Middle East," CENTCOM said. Wednesday night's strikes mark the first direct attacks by the U.S.

on Iran since last week. https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz/#post-update-982b756d link copied The State Department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on several entities that it alleges are involved in a scheme to extract fees from ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The State Department accused the Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company and Hormuz Safe Marine Services Authority, which it claims are both backed by the IRGC, of "running coercive 'insurance' schemes that extort international shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

These entities manufacture risk—including the threat of vessel seizures—and then charge commercial vessels for coverage against dangers created by the regime itself, generating revenue that sustains IRGC operations and Iran's broader campaign of regional destabilization." The department also announced it had designated eight companies "operating vessels that have transported illicit Iranian crude oil and petrochemical products to China and the United Arab Emirates," alleging those vessels are part of Iran's shadow fleet. https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz/#post-update-1aaecd00 link copied President Trump said he's been briefed on the drone attack at an Egyptian port. Asked by a reporter in the Oval Office if there was any indication the attack was linked to Iran, Mr.

Trump said, "I've been briefed. It's a little more of the same, but it's going to be straightening out." https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz/#post-update-30045319 link copied The U.S. military's Central Command said Wednesday it has redirected 20 commercial ships that it accuses of trying to evade its blockade on Iranian ports, up from 12 on Saturday .

U.S. forces have also boarded two ships and disabled two. President Trump ordered the blockade to restart about two weeks ago.

Meanwhile, transits of the Strait of Hormuz by all ships — both Iranian and non-Iranian — remain extremely limited, amid Iranian threats to strike ships that don't comply with its rules, according to analytics firm Kpler. https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz/#post-update-a6643378 link copied President Trump reiterated that the U.S. would strike back at Iran in retaliation for the latest attack by the country's Revolutionary Guard.

"We're going to be hitting them very hard because it's our turn to hit them," Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "They know it's coming, they're asking us not to do it." https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz/#post-update-76676dcd link copied Drone strikes ignited fires Wednesday on two natural gas vessels at an Egyptian port, a maritime security firm said.

The attacks were on a U.S.-owned floating storage facility and a Greek-owned tanker at Damietta, according to Ambrey, a British maritime security firm. No injuries were reported from the fires, according to the Egyptian Petroleum Ministry, which gave no information on the cause. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the strikes.

Egypt, a close U.S. ally and regional mediator, is one of the countries in the Middle East to have been spared from direct military action during the war. A strike by Iran or its allies, if confirmed, would mark a significant widening of the conflict.

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