IRGC launches 12 ballistic missile strike on US base in Jordan

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it launched 12 ballistic missiles at the US-operated al-Azraq air base in Jordan in response to recent US missile attacks on Iran.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the IRGC said its Aerospace Force targeted American F-35, F-15, and F-16 fighter jets, as well as key facilities of the “terrorist US army” at the air base and a command-and-control center.

The IRGC claimed that the missile strike destroyed facilities at the base and damaged a large number of fighter aircraft.

It warned that military operations would continue as long as what it described as enemy aggression persists.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said the country’s armed forces would continue responding to actions by the United States.

“The cessation of the US attacks on areas in southern Iran, as announced by the president of that country, is due to the powerful and crushing response of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Armed Forces, through which another defeat has been inflicted upon that country’s military,” the statement said.

Iran’s military command also repeated its determination to respond to what it called US aggression.

Earlier on Thursday, the IRGC and the Iranian Army announced a series of coordinated military operations targeting US military installations across the region, including sites in Bahrain.

The IRGC said its Aerospace Force and Navy carried out operations in response to attacks on military positions, law enforcement facilities, and the Bandar Abbas airport area.

Separately, the Iranian Army’s Public Relations Office reported a drone operation targeting the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

Iran’s response came after US President Donald Trump ordered a new round of military strikes against Iran. Trump later told Fox News that American forces had launched 49 Tomahawk missiles in the latest attacks.