US strikes Iranian oil tankers as Tehran targets American base in Jordan
- U.S. Central Command forces disabled five Iranian oil tankers—sinking at least one vessel, the M/T Riesco, in the Gulf of Oman—in retaliation for two failed IRGC ballistic missile attacks targeting a U.S. Navy warship.
- Following standard protocol, U.S. forces directed crew members to abandon the shadow-fleet tankers before striking the ships, framing the economic strikes as an effort to cripple IRGC proxy funding.
- In response to the tanker destruction, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched a major barrage of 20 ballistic missiles—some reportedly carrying cluster munitions—aimed at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, which hosts American air operations.
- The Jordanian Armed Forces reported that their air defense networks successfully intercepted 18 of the incoming missiles, while two struck unpopulated areas with no casualties recorded.
- The IRGC issued subsequent threats warning oil tanker crews near ports in Kuwait and Bahrain to evacuate immediately, cautioning that vessels docked or anchored at host-nation facilities would face direct targeting.
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The US has again attacked Iranian oil tankers.
Correspondent Kim Sang-hoon = Iran strongly condemned the US military's attack on its oil tanker and said on the 9th (local time) that it hit a US military base and US warship in Jordan as a retaliatory measure, Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, “The US terrorist forces
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U.S. Central Command destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in the most significant single naval engagement of the ongoing Hormuz conflict, after Iran attempted fresh missile attacks on U.S. guided-missile destroyers.
UCENTCOM says US forces destroyed 5 Iranian tankers after attacks on American warship
WASHINGTON — US forces destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and near Kharg Island after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted a US Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the past two days, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Tuesday."The US warship successfully evaded the attempted Iranian attacks and continued to patrol regional waters. No American personnel were harmed," it said in a statement…
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