Jordanian shoot down 5 missiles launched from Iran

Jordan’s air defences shot down five missiles launched from Iran on Thursday morning, the country’s state-run  news  said, hours after the US military announced it had completed “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan.

No casualties were reported from Jordan’s interception of the missiles, the news agency quoted the spokesman for the country’s armed forces as



saying.

The US Central Command said in a social media post that for over two hours the United States had struck “dozens” of targets belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, including military command centres as well as missile and drone facilities, and coastal surveillance and defence sites.

The new strikes came hours after US President Donald Trump vowed to hit Iran “very hard” after it targeted a base in Jordan that hosts US troops.