Iran has launched a new wave of missile and drone attacks against US military facilities in Jordan and Bahrain after American strikes on southern Iran hit a residential building where a wedding ceremony was underway, killing four people, including a child, and injuring dozens.
The US military began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, saying the operation was launched in response to alleged Iranian attempts to attack commercial shipping and American troops in the region. President Donald Trump described the strikes as “large and powerful” and warned Tehran that any retaliation would trigger an even harsher response.
Iranian authorities said shrapnel from one of the US strikes hit a residential house in Kuhestak, in Hormozgan Province, where a wedding was taking place. The death toll later rose to four, including a young child, while Iranian media reported that the number of injured had climbed to 68.
The IRGC subsequently announced the start of what it called a “punishing response,” saying ballistic missiles had been fired at Camp Titin, a US military facility near Aqaba in southern Jordan. The Guard claimed that American troops were killed and military infrastructure and helicopters destroyed, although Washington has not confirmed those claims.
Iran’s regular army separately said it had launched drones against US facilities at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain, targeting radar installations and areas used by American forces.
Jordan said 13 ballistic missiles entered its airspace during the latest attacks, with ten intercepted and three falling away from populated areas.
The new escalation follows an exchange of strikes over the weekend, after US forces hit Iran’s Larak Island in the Strait and Tehran retaliated with ballistic missiles and drones targeting American military positions in Jordan. US President Donald Trump vowed to “hit Iran hard.”
Earlier, Washington launched what it called an “economic onslaught” against Iran, imposing new sanctions and threatening to boot any country dealing financially with Tehran out of the US dollar system. On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said new secondary sanctions would be rolled out every week against foreign banks and companies that continue dealing with Iran.
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US Central Command says it has completed its latest round of bombings against Iran, claiming to have hit IRGC air-defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, minelaying capabilities, and communications sites.
“More than 50,000 U.S. service members are currently operating across the Middle East and remain vigilant, lethal, and prepared to continue executing operations directed by the Commander in Chief,” the command added.
Iran will respond “with firmness” to the US strike that hit a wedding in Kuhestak, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said. Baqaei said more than 50 men, women and children had been killed or wounded, accusing Washington of adding to a “catalogue of atrocities” against Iran.
He also condemned governments and international institutions that had remained silent, warning that “turning a blind eye to injustice does not contain it; it only emboldens the perpetrators.”
Multiple OSINT accounts have shared footage purportedly showing an Iranian medium-range ballistic missile striking near Aqaba in southern Jordan earlier tonight.
Iran has said it targeted Camp Titin, a US Marine Corps facility near the Gulf of Aqaba, during its latest retaliatory attack.
Jordanian air defenses intercepted ten of 13 ballistic missiles that entered the kingdom’s airspace, the country’s armed forces said.
The remaining three fell in areas away from population centers, with no casualties reported.
The number of people injured when a US strike hit a residential building hosting a wedding ceremony in Kuhestak, southern Iran, has risen to 68, Iranian media reported.
Four people, including a young child, were killed in the attack.
Victims of the US strike on a wedding in southern Iran, including children, have been brought to hospital for treatment, Press TV reported. The outlet shared footage purportedly showing the wounded receiving medical care.
Press TV has shared footage purportedly showing the immediate aftermath of the deadly strike on a wedding in Kuhestak.
Iran’s military says it has launched drone strikes against US facilities at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain.
The Iranian Army said radar facilities and areas used by American forces were targeted in what it described as the 29th phase of its “Lightning” operation.
It vowed a “crushing and extensive response” to further US attacks.
Four people, including a young child, were killed when shrapnel from a US missile strike hit a residential home where a wedding was underway in Kuhestak, in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province, the Iranian Red Crescent said.
“More than 50 people were injured and four people, including a young child, were martyred,” the organization said.
Rescue operations and medical treatment for the wounded were continuing.
More than 50 people were initially reported injured in the strike on Kuhestak, Hossein Kermanpour, a senior Iranian Health Ministry official, said. Kermanpour said a child was among those killed and that electricity and telephone connections in the area had been cut.
Iran has vowed to retaliate for the US strikes with “crushing and devastating blows,” according to statements from Iran’s armed forces published by Tasnim. Tehran will “under no circumstances compromise” on the country’s rights and will impose “heavy costs” on the US, the statements said.
Broadcaster IRIB has reported that a wedding ceremony in Sirik, a coastal area near the Strait of Hormuz, was hit by shrapnel in what it described as a “brutal attack” by the US. Two people were killed and several others injured, according to local officials.
Iranian media have reported explosions in the southeastern cities of Konarak and Chabahar following the US strikes. According to IRNA, a provincial security official said a total of four projectiles hit the two counties.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that the US was striking Iranian targets “near the Strait of Hormuz,” describing the operation as “large and powerful” and calling it retaliation for what he said was an attempted Iranian mining of the waterway and a missile attack on a US base in Jordan. He warned that if Tehran retaliates again, it would be “hit again at a much harder and higher level.”
US Central Command said in a post on X on Tuesday that American forces had begun striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets at 12 p.m. Eastern Time (16:00 GMT), adding that the operation followed “recent attempted attacks” by the IRGC on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and on US troops deployed in the region.