President Donald Trump has said that the US is prepared to launch another attack on Iran at “any time”. "We took out all of the new equipment that they tried to build along the Strait of Hormuz - some defensive, some offensive,” he told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. It came as Iranians and others in the region feared a return of the conflict in earnest after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July.
US attacks hit the southern coast of Iran while Tehran hit back at US assets in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. Iran accused Washington of hitting a wedding party, killing four people and wounding dozens, while its health minister later said 18 people in total had been killed and 108 injured in the latest wave of US strikes. The US military said the targets of its attacks were air defences, radar systems, maritime assets, mine-laying capabilities and communications sites on Tuesday.
Multiple US embassies in the Middle East issued a security alert to American citizens in the region on Wednesday. The security environment "remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation", the embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said. The US embassy in Riyadh advised Americans to prepare for possible flight cancellations, airspace closures and travel disruptions.
A similar alert was issued by the US mission in the UAE. The warnings came after Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran “at a much harder and higher level” and leave “very little left” of the country if it retaliated. Iran launched retaliatory attacks overnight.
President Donald Trump said the US hit Iran “very hard” on Tuesday night, claiming the strikes were in response to an Iranian attack on US forces in Jordan. He said the US had “taken out all of the new equipment” Iran had built along the Strait of Hormuz. The vessels included two very large gas carriers, two long-range tankers, one Supramax tanker and one Panamax tanker.
The figure is likely to be revised as some vessels typically switch off their transponders while passing through the strait. In an age of rogue lawlessness dominating international affairs since Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office and then staggered about the globe like a toddler with a chainsaw, it is inevitable that other outlaw nations, Russia and Iran, would see opportunity in the mayhem. The 47th US president is too infantile and misled by a messianic government in Israel to comprehend that the citizens of Iran will not rise against their oppressors in Tehran under the Stars and Stripes and that Moscow will never be America’s friend.
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