The United States carries out strikes on Iran for the first time in a month, and Iran retaliates by attacking U.S. military targets in Jordan. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say they strike Washington-allied facilities in the kingdom using ballistic missiles.
Iran reports “heavy damage” from the attacks and frames the response as retaliation for the first U.S. strikes on its territory in the past month. Al-Monitor characterizes the exchange as part of a broader, ongoing escalation over roughly six months.
Jordan’s army says it intercepts eight missiles following the reported Iranian launch, without providing details on where they originate. The accounts converge on the timing—U.S. strikes after a month-long gap, followed by Iranian missile fire into Jordan—and on Iran’s claim of impact, while differing in emphasis about the broader “flare-up” context and the scale of damage description.
