What Happened
Retaliation For Attempted Ballistic Missile Attack
The US has carried out strikes on military targets in Iran in retaliation for an attempted ballistic missile attack by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on a US airbase in Jordan. The strikes, which began at 8 p.m. ET, targeted areas in southern Iran, with Iranian media reporting explosions in the region. US President Donald Trump had publicly vowed to retaliate for the alleged attack, stating that the US would ‘hit them very hard.’ The strikes were reported by Al-Monitor, the Middle East’s leading independent news source since 2012.