The Iranian Revolutionary Guard launches missile strikes on an American base in Jordan and announces the targeting of oil tankers in the Gulf

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced, at dawn on Wednesday, launching violent missile strikes on the “American Azraq Base in Jordan,” in response to the American attack on Iranian oil tankers.

The statement, carried by the official Iranian news agency, added that the attack was heavy with solid and liquid ballistic missiles, and targeted “the hangar for the maintenance, equipping and deployment of F-35, F-16 and F-15 aircraft, in addition to the fighter shelter, causing severe damage.”

The Syrian official Al-Ikhbariya channel announced that it had confronted Iranian missiles over Suwayda that were targeting Jordan, while Jordanian media reported missile interceptions in the city of Irbid in the north of the kingdom.

Al-Ekhbariya channel said, "The sounds of explosions heard in the Damascus countryside and the missiles seen in the skies of the governorate resulted from Jordanian defenses responding to Iranian missiles."

The Jordanian army said in a statement on Wednesday that "its air defenses dealt with 20 ballistic missiles originating from Iran that targeted the Kingdom, and intercepted 18 of them, while two missiles landed in an area devoid of population centers," stressing that there were "no loss of life."

Jordan repeatedly denies the presence of American military bases on its territory, and says that the presence of American forces in Jordan is in Jordanian military bases in accordance with a defense cooperation agreement with the United States.

A news agency close to military sources in Iran reported targeting targets on the coast of Bahrain.

Attacks on oil tankers

Official Iranian media reported that the Revolutionary Guard announced in a statement on Wednesday that it had attacked two American ships and eight oil tankers in the Gulf, in response to an American attack that targeted five Iranian oil tankers.

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The Revolutionary Guard also stated that it attacked ten other ships that were trying to cross an area in the Strait of Hormuz that it described as “prohibited and unsafe.”

US forces destroyed five Iranian oil tankers on Tuesday after Tehran fired ballistic missiles at an American warship twice in the past two days, according to the US military.

The US Central Command (Centcom) announced that it "destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers on September 8, after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard targeted a US Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the past two days." The American warship succeeded in avoiding Iranian attack attempts and continued its patrols in territorial waters, without any casualties among American personnel.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday warned Tehran that the United States would continue to strike Iranian oil tankers in response to attempts to attack US warships.

“Iran continues its attempts to strike American naval ships, and every time it does or attempts to do so, it will lose oil tankers,” Rubio told reporters during a visit to Colombia.

The Iranian Al-Alam channel quoted the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as announcing that it had targeted two American destroyers carrying cruise and Aegis missiles and caused significant damage to them with ballistic missiles, in response to the American attacks on Iranian oil tankers.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard said on Tuesday that ships in Kuwaiti and Bahraini ports hosting Americans would be targeted in response to the American attacks on Iranian oil tankers.

In a statement reported by state media, the Revolutionary Guards Navy urged all ship crews to evacuate.

Reuters quoted a US official as saying: “We targeted several Iranian tankers linked to the Revolutionary Guard in response to new attempts to launch missile attacks on a US Navy warship.”

Tasnim News Agency said that US military forces targeted an oil tanker near Khark Island, and that the attack did not result in casualties, and its crew was evacuated.

The Iranian Radio and Television Corporation reported that the United States attacked another oil tanker near Iranian Jask waters.

The Iranian Mehr News Agency reported that explosions were heard in parts of Khark Island, and Fars Agency also reported that explosions were heard on an island in southern Iran.

Khark Island, located in the Arabian Gulf, northeast of the port of Bushehr, is the main outlet for most oil exports from Iran.

Today, through Chief of General Staff Ali Abdullahi, Tehran issued a warning to the United States to target military bases in the region if its forces were exposed to Iranian oil tankers.

Earlier today, the naval forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced the seizure of an American submarine.

Reuters quoted an unidentified American official as saying that the unmanned submarine broke down in the Middle East more than a day ago, and that it is “an old model and does not carry secret sonar equipment.”

“Significant progress” in talks between Iran and Oman

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi noted on Tuesday that “significant progress” had been achieved in talks with Oman on the management of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, according to a statement issued by the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

Iranian officials recently said that the agreement between Iran and Oman may be signed “in the coming days.”

For weeks, Iran and the Sultanate have been discussing the future of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz corridor. Tehran announced progress in agreeing on a temporary route for ships to cross.

But Iranian officials stressed that the Strait will not be reopened until the United States responds to Iranian demands, including lifting sanctions on the oil sector, releasing Iranian assets frozen abroad, and lifting the naval blockade of ports.

Iran and the Sultanate of Oman - the two countries bordering the Strait of Hormuz - have indicated their desire to collect fees from ships crossing the strait.

The United States, the Gulf states, and other parties refuse to impose any financial sums for ships crossing the strait.

No decision to deploy South Korean forces in the Strait of Hormuz

The presidential office in Seoul said that South Korean President Lee Jae-myung discussed the Strait of Hormuz with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, explaining that the talks centered on potential contributions to international efforts aimed at ensuring security and freedom of navigation and not on the deployment of military forces.

National Security Advisor Lee Sung-lak also stated that the review of South Korea's potential role in the Strait of Hormuz is not related to investment talks with the United States, and that Iran has requested clarification regarding reports of this potential role.

South Korea announced on Tuesday that it had sent a fact-finding team to “assess the situation on the ground” in the Strait of Hormuz, and confirmed that it had not taken any decision regarding the possibility of deploying forces there.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense said, "The team was sent to study the regional situation and security conditions, and its mission does not presuppose the actual deployment of forces."

She added, "No decision has been made regarding the deployment of forces."

This comes after Tehran warned that any South Korean military contribution to the conflict would have "dangerous consequences."

“Any deployment of military forces or participation by other countries in operations” in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz “can only be viewed as direct support for the party responsible for that aggression, and will have serious consequences,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said in a Korean-language post on the

Baghaei warned Seoul against giving in to what he described as “American pressure and intimidation.”

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly pressured his ally, South Korea, to provide assistance in the war, but Seoul denied that Washington had asked it to deploy forces by a specific date.

South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported, citing officials, that the fact-finding team left for the UAE over the weekend, to assess operational conditions regarding the possible deployment of forces.

Pezeshkian: “Iran will continue to resist until the aggressors regret it.”

On the internal level, the Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported the killing of Abdul Raouf Ishaqi, a military commander in the mobilization forces - Basij - in Baroud district in Sistan and Baluchestan province, without publishing any details.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack.

On Monday, the Iranian authorities announced the killing of three people and the arrest of nine others during a raid targeting the hideouts of Islamic groups, accused of working for Israel and the United States in the province.

Sistan and Baluchestan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long witnessed clashes between Iranian security forces, rebels and drug smugglers.