President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the US military will be hitting Iran “hard” after a missile attack against US bases in Jordan, US media reported. “We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating,” he said.
He added that US-Saudi bombing of pro-Iranian militias overnight inside Iraq had been coordinated with the authorities in Baghdad. Trump said, “Those strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi government.”
Trump’s reported assertion came as Iraq’s presidency denounced the US-Saudi attacks as a “blatant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.”
Strikes resumed in the Middle East on Wednesday after a lull of several days, with the US military announcing it had intercepted Iranian missiles and launched an attack on “Iran-backed militias” in Iraq in coordination with Saudi Arabia, leading to a rise in oil prices.
US Central Command said on X, “U.S. Central Command and the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces conducted precision strikes in Iraq, July 28, against Iran-aligned terrorists that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed to attack U.S. forces and Saudi energy infrastructure.” (AFP)
