After Iran’s IRGC launched a ballistic-missile attack on U.S. facilities in Jordan (all intercepted), the United States resumed airstrikes inside Iran, targeting IRGC command centers, missile and drone facilities, and maritime assets.

U.S. forces continue enforcing a maritime blockade on Iranian ports, while coordinated U.S.-Saudi strikes hit Iran-backed militias in eastern Iraq in response to attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure.

The article argues that Iran’s leadership appears unwilling to pursue diplomacy and is escalating the conflict regionally, prompting a harder U.S. and Saudi military response focused on degrading IRGC capabilities.

President Trump has let it be known that he is not putting up with Tehran’s negotiating games. In response to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s (IRGC) surprise attack, launching numerous ballistic missiles at American military facilities in Jordan on Tuesday night (July 28), America’s commander-in-chief said the strikes would be answered with ferocity. All incoming missiles were intercepted, and no damage was done, nor were US service members killed or injured. What the attack did accomplish, however, was to motivate the US president to act decisively. As Fox News reported: “The United States resumed airstrikes inside Iran Wednesday night in retaliation for Tehran’s attempted surprise ballistic-missile attack on American forces, as an Iran expert warned that the regime has become increasingly willing to test Washington despite its weakened military capabilities.”

An Unmistakable Message to Iran

If the US had thought the Iranian regime had gotten the message to cease its attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, it hadn’t.........

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