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Jordan’s military said it intercepted four missiles in the
Iranian attack, while two others fell in “uninhabited areas.”
Plumes of smoke could be seen overhead in Aqaba in videos filmed
by people in the nearby Israeli city of Eilat.
The U.S. military said earlier Wednesday that it had completed
an 11th night of strikes on Iran. Iranian air defenses activated
near the capital, Tehran, and Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency
reported that explosions rocked Bushehr, East Azerbaijan,
Hamadan, Hormozgan, Khuzestan and Sistan and Baluchistan
provinces. The U.S. said its targets included aircraft hangars
and drone storage sites.
That came after Iran attacked a tanker in the strait Tuesday,
forcing the crew to abandon the ship. Iran also kept up attacks
against U.S. allies in the region. Iran also launched attacks
against Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait.
Before the latest strikes, Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar
Momeni visited Pakistan, a key mediator in the conflict, seeking
to revive diplomacy. But it was unclear what new arrangement
might be reached to end the war, which lately has become a
battle for control over the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway vital
to world energy supplies.
Speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump gave a dim view
on possible talks, saying the U.S. had “no interest in meeting.”
He signaled that U.S. forces could soon target an area of Iran
close to one of its main sites for enriching uranium.
The previous day, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels opened a new
front against Saudi Arabia by declaring a naval blockade of the
kingdom, threatening the flow of global oil supplies and trade.
With the Strait of Hormuz blocked up, Saudi Arabia has been
relying on a pipeline to the Red Sea to get millions of barrels
of oil out to market.
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