Iran's Strike on Jordan Signals a More Aggressive Military Strategy
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We provide what many… Iran fired ballistic missiles at American bases in Jordan late on July 28, in what appeared to be the first time Tehran initiated an attack on US targets since the war began in late February.
The Islamic Republic has claimed it is fighting a war of resistance and framed its actions as purely defensive.
But the attack on Jordan, where three American soldiers were killed this month, could mark a shift in strategy, experts say.
Iran’s leadership “wants to demonstrate strength, and these military actions can be understood in that context,” Meysam Badamchi, an Iran expert and senior researcher at Charles University in Prague, told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda.
US President Donald Trump angrily warned Iran that US forces will strike back.
They're going to get a beating,” a Fox News correspondent quoted Trump as saying during a brief interview on July 29.
Iran’s attack broke a lull in fighting since July 24.
During the preceding two weeks, the United States had conducted daily air strikes on Iran, which retaliated by hitting American bases dotted across the Middle East.
The renewed fighting effectively ended an interim peace deal signed in June.
The US military's Central Command said on July 28 that it intercepted multiple ballistic missiles launched by Iran toward US forces in the Middle East in what it said was “an attempted surprise attack.” Jordan said on July 29 that it intercepted and downed five Iranian missiles.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the elite branch of its armed forces, said its forces “targeted a US airbase and the US Central Command Centre in Jordan with several ballistic missiles,” saying it was a response to “the aggressive actions” of the United States, without elaborating.
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