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President Trump announces plans to resume intensive airstrikes against Iran following an Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Jordan.
Iran has threatened to strike U.S. bases, warships and civilian targets across neighboring Gulf countries if the U.S. and Israel resume attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported. The warning came as the U.S. sent additional military forces toward the Middle East, moved some troops off regional bases and directed nonemergency government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia.
President Trump said Friday he plans to resume heavy military strikes against Iran, vowing to hit the country "very hard" and predicting the regime would eventually "peter out," marking a sharp reversal from his insistence earlier this week that "very friendly negotiations" were under way.
U.S. forces launched a heavy wave of strikes targeting dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites inside Iran late Wednesday in retaliation for Iran’s attempted ballistic missile attack on American forces in Jordan, the U.S. military said.
President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States paused airstrikes on Iran at Tehran's request, but Iran's Foreign Ministry denied any new bilateral negotiations, saying it is only holding talks with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz.