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A satellite image shows aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan in February. Credit: Planet Labs PBC/AP
A satellite image shows aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan in February. Credit: Planet Labs PBC/AP
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it destroyed U.S. aircraft in a drone and missile attack on a military base in northern Jordan, the guard-affiliated Tasnim news agency reported.
The Iranian paramilitary force said it struck “fortified hangars housing fighter aircraft and a large aircraft parking ramp” at the base, also known as Muwaffaq Salti, adding that it “destroyed at least two American fighter jets and three other U.S. aircraft, while inflicting major damage on several others.”
The statement posted on Tasnim, an Iranian news agency linked to the Revolutionary Guards, urged Jordanians to take up arms against U.S. soldiers on their soil, saying that Islamic religious rulings say “invading non-Muslim soldiers on Islamic lands are considered lawful targets.”
The Iranian paramilitary force added that Jordanians have a “religious and moral duty” to kill the soldiers “by whatever means possible and cleanse the sacred land of Jordan of those who have killed oppressed Muslims,” saying the U.S. military “has killed hundreds of thousands” in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as in “Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, the Philippines and Palestine.”