AMMAN: The Jordanian military said it intercepted eight missiles fired from Iran on Thursday, while the Islamic republic said it targeted a US base there amid a new exchange of strikes between Tehran and Washington.
“Jordanian air defense systems intercepted and shot down, today, Thursday, eight missiles that were launched from Iran toward Jordanian territory,” the military said in a statement.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they struck the US’s “command-and-control center in West Asia and the enemy air base in Al-Azraq, Jordan, with 10 ballistic missiles.”
It added that “if the terrorist US military repeats its aggression, the other US bases in the region will not be safe from our heavy fire.”
The missile fire came on a second consecutive day of tit-for-tat barrages between the US and Iran, including scores of US strikes on Iran, testing a fragile ceasefire as the foes battle over the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
