{"id":2000125501,"date":"2026-09-09T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000125501"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:01:04","slug":"iran-strikes-u-s-base-in-jordan-in-retaliation-for-attacks-on-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/iran-strikes-u-s-base-in-jordan-in-retaliation-for-attacks-on-tankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran strikes U.S. base in Jordan in retaliation for attacks on tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The IRGC said in a statement that it struck a hangar for the maintenance, repair, preparation and deployment of the U.S. Army’s F-35, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets and a shelter for the U.S. fighter aircraft at the Al-Azraq Air Base, “inflicting heavy damage on the enemy.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan’s military said on Wednesday that its air defence systems have destroyed 18 of 20 Iranian ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two missiles fell in unpopulated areas, causing no casualties, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed retaliation for Iranian strikes on US naval ships <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced early Wednesday that its aerospace forces have attacked a U.S. air base in Jordan in retaliation for U.S. “aggressive” attacks against Iranian oil tankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000125503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000125501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-37","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000125503,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/7d3dcf68f8c.jpg","alt":"","caption":"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed retaliation for Iranian strikes on US naval ships ","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1024,"height":576,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/7d3dcf68f8c.jpg","width":1024,"height":576},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/7d3dcf68f8c.jpg","width":1024,"height":576},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/7d3dcf68f8c.jpg","width":1024,"height":576},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/7d3dcf68f8c.jpg","width":1024,"height":576},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/7d3dcf68f8c.jpg","width":1024,"height":576}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000125501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000125505,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125501\/revisions\/2000125505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000125503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000125501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000125501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000125501"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000125501"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000125501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}