Summary

  • US President Donald Trump said Iran was “going to get a beating” for an attempted overnight missile attack on US forces in Jordan.
  • Iranian officials said a missile struck an uninhabited area near the border town of Piranshahr in West Azarbaijan province on Wednesday without causing casualties, after state media blamed the attack on the United States.
  • Yemen’s Houthis are considering charging commercial ships to transit the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, with Chinese vessels exempt, after discussing the proposal with Iranian officials, Reuters reported, citing regional sources.
  • Oman’s proposal for joint regional management of the Strait of Hormuz with Iran has no chance of success, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing a senior Iranian official.
  • Jordan’s air defenses intercepted and downed five missiles launched from Iran that targeted the country early on Wednesday, the Jordanian military said.
  • At least 20 members of Iraq’s Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces were killed and 32 wounded in US-Saudi strikes on several of the group’s bases across Iraq, the group said on Wednesday.

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