President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. AP
Trump said the US attacks near the Strait of Hormuz were in response to Iran laying mines and firing missiles at an American base in Jordan.
"If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!" Trump said on his Truth Social network.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards vowed to make the United States "regret" the latest attacks around the Strait of Hormuz.
"Severe punishment awaits the aggressors; the United States will regret its new attacks," Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi said in a post on X, after explosions were reported in multiple areas along and east of the strategic waterway.
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