US President Donald Trump is threatening to ‘beat the f****** s*** out of’ Iran after the country hit US troops in Jordan.
‘[They’re] going to get a beating,’ Trump told Fox News.
Trump’s threat of escalation on Wednesday comes the day after Iran launched ballistic missiles at US forces in Jordan in what US Central Command described as an ‘attempted surprise attack.’
The US successfully intercepted all of the Iranian missiles, according to CENTCOM.
The US, in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, struck Iranian-backed militias in Iraq last night, CENTCOM said, saying this action was retaliation for a series of drone strikes and not the missile attack in Jordan.
Trump said that the US-Saudi strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi government.
Before Iran’s missile attack, both the regime and the US had observed a multi-day lull in the fighting, the first pause in nearly two weeks.
Relative quiet on Saturday and Sunday broke a string of 13 consecutive days of fighting after the breakdown of a June memorandum of understanding signed by the US and Iran.
Earlier this week, Trump revisited the idea of striking a possible Iranian nuclear facility known as Pickaxe Mountain while rebuking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bringing up the site in public.
