President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning issued a profanity-laced threat against Iran after the Islamic regime launched a surprise missile strike on U.S. forces in Jordan overnight.
"We're going to beat the f---ing s--- out of them," Trump told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst.
"We'll be hitting them hard," the president said of Iran. "They're going to get a beating."
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Trump said the American forces in Jordan had just minutes to respond and shoot down the incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. The president added that he reviewed video showing U.S. personnel calling out coordinates in real time during the interceptions.
U.S. Central Command said all Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired ballistic missiles at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base and the headquarters of the U.S. military’s Central Command in Jordan, the paramilitary force said in a statement carried by Iran's state-run IRNA news agency.
Jordan’s military said five Iranian missiles had been intercepted and destroyed. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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The U.S. military later announced that American and Saudi fighter aircraft had struck multiple Iran-backed Shiite logistics and weapons sites in eastern Iraq in response to alleged drone attacks on Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Defense Ministry warned that it "does not seek escalation but will respond to any aggression."
Trump told Fox News that the overnight U.S.-Saudi strikes against Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq were coordinated with the Iraqi government.
He called the militias a "cancer on the world" and said additional warnings against Iranian proxies were under consideration.
Despite the flare-up, Trump said that talks with Iran will continue.
"We're going to let them keep talking," he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
