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Jordan intercepted ten of thirteen missiles fired from Iranian territory
By Staff Writer | 2 September 2026
The Jordan Armed Forces said air defences engaged thirteen ballistic missiles that entered the Kingdom's airspace overnight and destroyed ten of them, with the remaining three falling in uninhabited ground. No injuries were recorded. The launches followed a fresh American barrage on Iranian military targets.
An official spokesperson for the Jordan Armed Forces said on Wednesday morning that the Kingdom had been targeted by a missile attack originating from Iranian territory over the preceding hours. Jordanian air defence systems engaged thirteen ballistic missiles that breached the Kingdom's airspace and intercepted and destroyed ten of them, while three landed in remote, uninhabited areas.
No injuries or casualties were recorded. Specialised response teams secured the impact sites, and the armed forces asked the public to keep away from unknown debris or falling objects, to leave them where they lie, and to report them to the authorities rather than circulating unverified accounts.
What came before the launches
United States Central Command said in a statement on Tuesday evening that it had completed a barrage against Iranian military targets, naming air defence sites, radar systems and maritime assets. Those strikes followed others on Sunday, which had ended a month without military action between the two sides in a conflict that has now run for more than six months. Central Command said the Sunday strikes hit Iranian rocket launchers that would have fired sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz.
The pattern of the last four days is strikes on the machinery of detection and denial, not on population centres. Radar, air defence and mine laying equipment are the things that decide whether the waterway can be used, and they are what has been aimed at.
The American president gave his own account of the choice of target in a telephone call to a television network earlier on Tuesday.
They tried to rebuild their radar because they can't see anything. We waited until it was almost built and then we hit it.
Donald Trump, President of the United States
Before the barrage he had said that any retaliation for the new strikes would be met with a further round of strikes on a larger scale.
The claims neither side has settled
Iranian state television reported that American strikes had hit civilian sites along the southern coast, among them a fishmeal factory on Qeshm Island, a fishing pier and a port authority tower at Sirik, and that a projectile had struck ground outside the runway at the civilian airport at Jiroft in Kerman province without damaging the airport itself. It also reported that the electricity grid company said parts of the Hormozgan provincial network had been struck and that crews were restoring supply.
The same broadcaster quoted Ahmad Nafisi, deputy governor of Hormozgan province, as saying that a strike hit a house in Kuhestak where a wedding was being held, killing five people including a child and wounding at least sixty eight others. A Central Command spokesperson, Capt. Tim Hawkins, said Central Command was aware of the reports of civilian casualties and noted that they had originated from Iranian state media. Neither account has been independently established.
The price that follows the shipping
Crude has risen about seven per cent over the week and continued to rise after Tuesday's strikes. It is up more than fifty per cent across the year. A gallon of regular petrol in the United States moved up again overnight to 4.10 dollars, against 3.19 dollars at the same point last year. The Revolutionary Guard, in a statement carried by the Iranian state agency, said the attacks had tightened its closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which it put a fifth of the world's oil in normal conditions.
For anyone pricing work with a fuel, freight or marine insurance element in it, the number that moves the estimate is not the missile count. It is the war risk premium on a hull passing the strait and the diesel line in a preliminaries build up, and both of those have been reset twice inside four days. A contractor carrying a fixed price on imported plant is now carrying a currency it did not price.