Iran Fires Ballistic Missiles at U.S. Base in Jordan as American Strikes Pound Tehran for a Third Night

Iran fired ballistic missiles at a U.S. military base in Jordan at dawn on Tuesday, dramatically widening a conflict that has spread across the Persian Gulf as American forces pounded Iranian targets for a third consecutive night. Jordan's armed forces said their air defenses "intercepted and shot down four Iranian missiles that had entered Jordanian airspace from Iranian territory," according to a military statement.

The strikes followed a warning from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps demanding that Amman dismantle American bases on its soil. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the barrage was not intended to harm Jordanians, but the attack marked a sharp escalation in a war that has increasingly drawn in the small Gulf states caught between Tehran and Washington. Iran also claimed it struck U.S. military facilities in Bahrain, where it said "fires are raging," and that it destroyed a long-range airborne radar and a ship-detection radar in the Sultanate of Oman.

In Qatar, authorities reported three people injured, including a child, from falling debris as air defenses engaged incoming missiles. Sirens sounded across several Gulf capitals overnight as the region braced for further exchanges. The confrontation has upended a fragile ceasefire that the two sides signed only in June, and it has sent oil prices and shipping insurance rates climbing on fears that the Strait of Hormuz — the artery for roughly a fifth of the world's oil — could be choked off.

U.S. Central Command said it "launched more strikes against Iran to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships" in the Strait of Hormuz, aiming to "hold Iranian forces accountable." A wave of American strikes on Saturday hit roughly 140 Iranian sites, and officials said the week's three operations had struck more than 300 targets in total, including missile and drone sites, naval assets, ammunition depots, communications networks and coastal surveillance posts. Iranian state media reported that a naval officer, Lieutenant Hamidreza Dehghani, was killed during a U.S. strike on the port of Jask.

President Trump, who has reinstated a naval blockade of Iranian shipping and announced a 20% toll on other vessels for safe passage through the strait, issued a blistering threat on social media. "1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow," he wrote. Iran's parliament speaker answered in kind, declaring: "The era of one-sided deals is OVER. We told you: keep your word or pay the price."

The competing claims over who controls the Strait of Hormuz have hardened into a dangerous standoff, with both capitals insisting the waterway is theirs to command. As the strikes entered a new night, diplomats warned that a single miscalculation over the crowded Gulf could pull still more nations into open war.