Iran War: USA "destroy" Iranian tankers - Tehran fires missiles
The US military is again targeting Iranian tankers. Iran's response is not long in coming. Both sides are talking about retaliation.
The US military has attacked five Iranian oil tankers in retaliation for Iranian attacks on a US Navy warship. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard responded with "heavy rocket attacks" on Jordan, which were intercepted by the Jordanian army, with 20 ballistic missiles successfully fended off. The US military said the attacks on the tankers, which were part of a "shadow network" used to finance the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, were in response to Iranian attacks on a US warship with ballistic missiles.
The tankers destroyed were named as M/T Kaviz, M/T Charminar, M/T Horizon 1, M/T Riesco, and an attack on M/T Derya was also reported. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard claimed to have hit a US base in Jordan, Al-Asrak, with ballistic missiles, causing significant damage.
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