Iranian Missile Strike Damages Nine American Warplanes as Trump Says He’s No Longer Seeking Deal With Tehran

American fighter jets were damaged in an Iranian ballistic missile attack in Jordan as President Trump said Washington is no longer looking to negotiate with Tehran. Eight F-15 fighter jets and one A-10 Thunderbolt were damaged in the missile attack Tuesday overnight at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base at Jordan, according to CBS News which cited people with direct knowledge of the matter. Iran launched the ballistic missile attack in response to the U.S. military destroying five Iranian tankers earlier this week. The U.S. said it responded to an Iranian attack against U.S. warships. The U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday that a total of 10 Iranian tankers were destroyed in the past week. “These vessels were part of a multibillion-dollar shadow network that funds the IRGC, and Iran cannot defend them,” CENTCOM said. President Trump downplayed the prospects of Washington striking a deal with Tehran, saying: “We’re not looking for it, to be honest. Originally I wanted to make a deal.” “We’re so far down the line, they have very little country left right now, so we’re not looking for it. Yes, a negotiation could possibly happen but it’s not something we’re looking at,” Trump added. The president also said the U.S. has noticed a “little activity at Pickaxe (mountain),” where Iran is reportedly looking to move uranium-enrichment centrifuges and its highly enriched uranium. “I would advise Iran not to get cute because we will have to hit them very hard,” Trump said, repeating an earlier threat to bomb the mountain. When asked if Iran was getting help from foreign countries in the war against the U.S., Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington doesn’t think anybody is giving Iran “anything that’s changing the dynamics or the parameters of what we’re seeing.”“At the end of the day, they continue to fire on naval ships and when they fire at our naval ships, they pay a price in tankers. In the meantime, we’re going to continue to strangle them economically,” Rubio added. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) board of governors meanwhile voted to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for failing to comply with its obligations. Iran effectively barred IAEA inspectors from its nuclear sites following the war with Israel and the U.S. in June last year. “The Agency’s lack of information about these facilities and associated nuclear material and our inability to conduct verification activities at these facilities is a matter of serious proliferation concern,” IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday.

Iranian Missile Strike Damages Nine American Warplanes as Trump Says He’s No Longer Seeking Deal With Tehran

Iranian Missile Strike Damages Nine American Warplanes as Trump Says He’s No Longer Seeking Deal With Tehran

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