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Iran retaliates for US strike with attacks on Jordan, UAE

Iran on Monday struck back at the U.S., carrying out attacks on American military assets at bases in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Jordan after U.S. forces fired at two Iranian rocket launchers over the weekend. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched drones and missiles at the King Hussein and Al Azraq military...

Iran retaliates for US strike with attacks on Jordan, UAE

President Donald Trump vowed a "hard" response to Iranian attacks on American forces, referring to Iran as a "failed nation" in a Monday interview with Fox News. Following Tehran's retaliatory strikes on US targets in the Middle East, the President pledged America would "hit Iran hard" in response. Iran's strikes occurred after American forces had launched missiles against an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump denied Iran's claim that an oil tanker had hit mines near the same strategic waterway, instead stating that Iran's military, air force, and currency were non-existent. The President claimed the nation's inflation stood at 300 percent and said Iran's leadership was "in disarray and incapable of properly representing the country."

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