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Iran Guards say struck US base in Jordan

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards they had struck a US air base in Jordan with ballistic missiles in response to what they described as an American attack near a children’s cancer hospital in Iran, AFP reports.

The IRGC said US forces had “used air bases located in Jordan to target various parts of Iran, including the vicinity of a children’s cancer hospital”, and that its aerospace force responded by “launching two waves of missile strikes” on the bases in Jordan, according to their website.

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