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US Central Command announced on Wednesday night that it began launching airstrikes against Iran, hours after President Trump threatened a response to an Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan.
CENTCOM described the attacks as a “powerful response” to the attack in Jordan, though the extent of the US strikes remains unclear at this point. Trump has reportedly been mulling a significant escalation compared to the airstrikes the US was launching against Iran earlier this month.
On Wednesday morning, Trump told Fox News reporter Trey Yingst that the US was going to “beat the f-cking sh-t” out of Iran in response to the Jordan attack.
“We’re going to beat the f-cking sh-t out of them,” the president said, according to Yingst. “We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating.”
Trump described the strikes as a “surprise attack” and said that US troops had just “minutes” to intercept the missiles. During heavy US airstrikes on Iran earlier this month, Iran was pounding US bases in Jordan in response, and at least three US troops were killed, and more than 100 were wounded in the attacks...
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