The U.S. launched retaliatory overnight strikes against Iran’s Islamic Guard (IRGC) after two American servicemen were killed in an Iranian attack in the Middle East.
On Saturday night, U.S. Central Command announced that, following President Donald Trump’s orders, U.S. “forces began launching new airstrikes against Iran.” Some of these strikes were aimed at “swiftly punish[ing] Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night,” CENTCOM wrote on X.
On July 17, two U.S. service members were killed in action, and another was reported missing while operating missile defense systems in Jordan, the U.S. Military said in a statement on Saturday evening.
President Trump mourned the fallen soldiers, saying they sacrificed their lives to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. “They did it because they don’t want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon,” he told The New York Post. “… And it just shows you how bad [the Iranians] are.”
For the eighth consecutive night, the U.S. Military struck Iran after the regime tried to disrupt Strait of Hormuz shipping, ending the ceasefire agreement reached nearly a month ago.
American “forces successfully hit Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defense facilities, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone storage sites to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities,” CENTCOM disclosed on Saturday night. “American military assets also targeted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces that launched attacks against U.S. service members in Jordan on July 17.
Revealing the strength of the ongoing operation, CENTCOM said that “[m]ore than 50,000 U.S. men and women in uniform are operating across the Middle East.”
The regime-run media confirmed U.S. strikes in southern and western Iran. “Iran’s Mehr news agency said the U.S. carried out an attack near Sirik in southern Iran, adding that no casualties or damage to infrastructure have been reported,” Reuters wrote. “The Tasnim news agency said the U.S. military also targeted a location near Shadegan, close to the border with Iraq.”
The strike in the west of the country could have been at an Iranian nuclear site currently under construction. “Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said earlier today that the US attacked an under-construction nuclear power plant site in Khuzestan province, in the country’s southwest,” The Guardian reported Sunday morning.
Iran continued drone and missile attacks on Gulf Arab states. “Iran also has stepped up its threats to further expand the strikes, drawing a warning overnight from the United Arab Emirates,” the Associated Press reported Sunday. “Kuwait and Bahrain again activated air defenses Sunday morning as they warned of incoming Iranian drones and missiles.”
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