Iran attacks US warships
The Iran war is escalating. During the night, Iran has fired missiles at US warships and a number of other ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The attack comes shortly after the US attacked and destroyed five Iranian oil tankers.
A total of 20 US ships that tried to pass the Strait of Hormuz have been attacked early Wednesday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard claims according to the state news agency Irna.
This comes after the country threatened to fire missiles at tankers off the coast of Kuwait and Bahrain and urged crews to flee.
Iranian state media also claims that the country's forces have fired several missiles at a US air base in Jordan. The Jordanian army says it has destroyed 18 Iranian missiles.
According to the US military command Centcom, the attacks on Iranian oil tankers were a response to Iranian missile attacks on US ships in recent days.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims that Iran's attacks will not go unanswered.
- Iran continues its attempts to attack US ships. And every time they do it, or try to do it, they will lose tankers, he told reporters during a visit to Colombia on Tuesday, local time.
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