The Jordanian military said Tuesday morning it intercepted four ground-to-ground missiles fired from Iran into Jordanian airspace, the latest sign that the fighting between Washington and Tehran is spreading well beyond the Strait of Hormuz. The interception came as President Trump kept up his own escalating rhetoric, vowing overnight that the US military would strike Iran "with force" for a second straight night.
Jordan's military reported no casualties or damage from the intercepted missiles, according to the Associated Press. The strike on Jordan follows a similar Iranian barrage on July 9, when Jordanian forces downed eight missiles that Iran's Revolutionary Guard said were aimed at the Prince Hassan Air Base near Azraq, and continues a pattern stretching back to February in which Jordan has intercepted well over 250 Iranian projectiles amid the wider regional war.
Speaking Monday evening on the Hugh Hewitt Show, Trump said the US would strike Iran forcefully both that night and the next day, adding that Tehran had "nothing they can do about it." He described Iran's leadership as "stone cold crazy" and said that if the country ever obtained a nuclear weapon, it would use it within a day.
Trump also said for the first time that the US is eyeing a strike on Pickaxe Mountain, known in Persian as Kolang Gaz La, a heavily fortified underground facility roughly a mile from Iran's already-damaged Natanz enrichment site. He described it as "a possible target for a nice big fat shot right near the front door," though he said American surveillance currently shows no activity there. The site was not among the three nuclear facilities the US struck in June 2025, and international inspectors have never been granted access to it. Experts have questioned whether even the most powerful American bunker-buster bombs could reach the tunnel complexes buried deep inside the mountain.
Addressing speculation that he had distanced himself from Prime Minister Netanyahu, Trump rejected the idea outright. "I get along with Netanyahu; sometimes I disagree with him, and I tell him that," he said, adding that he had not "thrown Bibi under the bus" and calling him a wartime prime minister who has "done a great job." Trump went further, crediting the two of them together with Israel's continued existence, saying that without the joint decision to strike Iran's nuclear program, Tehran would have had a nuclear weapon within weeks and, in his telling, would have used it against Israel.
The overnight strikes mark the third consecutive night of US action against Iran since Trump ended the ceasefire reached in June, following renewed Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the strait.
