Jordan's Armed Forces announced Saturday they had intercepted 79 out of 85 missiles and drones fired directly from Iran toward Jordanian territory during the second week of the US-Israeli war against Tehran.
King Abdullah II © Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Jordan's Armed Forces announced Saturday they had intercepted 79 out of 85 missiles and drones fired directly from Iran toward Jordanian territory during the second week of the US-Israeli war against Tehran.
According to the military communiqué, the projectiles targeted "vital sites" across the kingdom. Six projectiles were not intercepted - five drones and one missile - while debris from 93 missiles and drones fell across the majority of Jordan's governorates, leaving nine people wounded.
The figures paint a picture of relentless Iranian aggression against a country that shares no direct role in the conflict. During the first week of the war, Jordan had already reported 119 missiles and drones fired toward its territory - bringing the two-week total to over 200 projectiles launched by Tehran against the Hashemite Kingdom.
The war was triggered on February 28, when the United States and Israel launched a large-scale operation against Iran - during which Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed. Since then, Iran has been firing retaliatory strikes across the region, targeting Gulf states, Iraq and Jordan indiscriminately.
For Amman, the message from Tehran is becoming impossible to ignore: Iran is not just targeting its enemies. It is targeting its neighbors.
Jordan has intercepted the vast majority of incoming fire - but no air defence system is perfect. And with over 200 projectiles launched in two weeks, the margin for error is shrinking.
Saudi Arabia expects imminent coordinated attacks from Iraqi militias north of the Gulf state and from Yemen's Houthis from the south under the supervision of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a senior Saudi official said.
An Iranian parliamentary committee is reviewing a preliminary bill that would bar U.S., Israeli and other "hostile" vessels from transiting the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported, citing a lawmaker.
With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, this week's flurry of threats and diplomacy has underscored the ever-tighter bind he finds himself in as he tries to extricate the U.S. from an unpopular conflict he originally claimed would last just weeks.
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