Trump Says U.S. Is Striking Iranian Targets Near Strait of Hormuz
Trump claims large strikes hit Iran in retaliation for a failed sea-mine attempt and eight missiles fired at a U.S. base in Jordan, warning of a harder blow if Tehran responds.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald Trump said the United States is striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz, describing the assault as large and powerful in a post on Truth Social. Trump framed the strikes as retaliation for what he called a failed Iranian attempt to mine the waterway and for missiles fired at a U.S. base in Jordan.
Here is the full post on truthsocial: “The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military 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” on September 1, 2026 at 3:39 PM ET.
This is Trump’s 15th message released today, and the last post was 6 minutes ago, and it is not part of a thread. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025. The move fits a broader pattern in Trump’s recent messaging, with 70 of his 656 posts over the last 30 days classified as Foreign Policy posts.
Trump claimed Iran fired eight missiles at a U.S.Military Base in Jordan and said forces knocked down all of them. He also claimed the Strait of Hormuz has no mines because crews removed or detonated them. Those casualty and outcome details come from Trump’s post and remain unverified in the allowed corpus.
The Strait of Hormuz has anchored the U.S.-Iran conflict as a central flashpoint. The U.S. military said it conducted a six-hour wave of strikes in multiple locations to “degrade Iran’s ability to threaten innocent mariners” in the Strait of Hormuz, according to bbc. U.S. Central Command said the strikes targeted command centres, air defence sites, and coastal surveillance facilities across Iran, including the port city of Bandar Abbas and Greater Tunb Island, according to bbc.
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Jordan has figured in earlier rounds of the fighting. The United States deployed dozens of military aircraft to Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in the run-up to strikes on Iran, according to France 24. A Jordanian military official said the kingdom’s forces shot down two ballistic missiles targeting its territory, and Jordan’s Public Security Directorate reported “no casualties but only material damage,” according to france24.
The scale of damage inside Iran has grown through the conflict. Satellite images show more than 50 Iranian Military Base s, including the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, damaged by U.S.-Israeli attacks since the war began, according to bbc. U.S. officials say they have hit more than 13,000 targets across Iran since the conflict began on February 28, according to bbc. The private intelligence company Janes estimated a total of 197 military and IRGC bases in Iran, according to bbc.
The United States maintains a long-standing military footprint across the Gulf that has come under fire during the war. Kuwait hosts several bases, including Camp Arifjan, the forward headquarters for the U.S. Army component of Central Command, according to France 24. Bahrain hosts Naval Support Activity Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which the Navy has used since 1948, according to france24.
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