DONALD Trump has vowed to enact revenge on Iran “many times over” after the deaths of three US soldiers in the Middle East.
It comes as the US president launched fresh strikes across the country for the 10th night running – before Tehran hit back with its own retaliatory attacks.
Centcom released footage of the latest strikes Credit: Reuters
US fighter jets seen in footage from Centcom as part of the fresh round of strikes Credit: Reuters
Washington’s latest blitz was unleashed to “further degrade” Tehran’s ability to attack commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
US Central Command (Centcom) said its latest assault hit Iranian “military command centres, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defense systems”.
In response to the overnight attack, Iran claimed it struck US military targets in Bahrain and Kuwait, as well as two oil tankers in the key waterway, according to state media.
It comes after the White House confirmed the identities of three dead US personnel.
Pte Isabella Gonzales, 19, from Texas, and Lt Tyler James Feehan, 25, from Hawaii were killed in an Iranian blitz on the Muwaffaq Salti base in Jordan over the weekend.
Smoke rises after a US airstrike in Iran Credit: Reuters
Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, July 21 Credit: Reuters
A third soldier went missing in action during the attack.
Unidentified remains have since been found in the area.
The third US soldier died in Iraq on Saturday during a “controlled detonation” of an Iranian drone.
Trump said on Monday following the tragic announcement: “Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over!”
He said this directive had been passed to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Daniel Caine, and “every Leader in the Military”.
Despite tit-for-tat strikes seemingly leaving any peace deal further from reality each day, mediators are reportedly working to help pass through a new one.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran was now locked in a “full-scale war” with the US.
But negotiators are understood to have passed Iran a proposal that would offer a new 10-day ceasefire.
On Monday, Iran’s interior minister landed in Pakistan for two days of talks with the country’s prime minister.
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