{"id":10217,"date":"2026-07-19T04:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:18:14","slug":"breaking-u-s-launches-retaliatory-strikes-to-swiftly-punish-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10217","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: U.S. Launches Retaliatory Strikes To \u2018Swiftly Punish\u2019 Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5743804\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5743804\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5743804\" src=\"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/iran-1-1200x800.jpeg\" alt=\"U.S. Aircraft Carrier\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5743804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Cover Images via AP Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S. military has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-hormuz-strait-war-july-18-2026-5adfef67554652580963684d9a663af2\">new airstrikes<\/a> against Iran to &#8220;swiftly punish&#8221; the Revolutionary Guard for killing at least two American service members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today at 6 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began launching new airstrikes against Iran at the Commander in Chief\u2019s direction,&#8221; U.S. Central Command posted on X on Saturday evening. &#8220;The strikes are designed to further degrade Iran\u2019s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"5e144d1b64fd2dec0f53df7e9bbe7538\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today at 6 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began launching new airstrikes against Iran at the Commander in Chief\u2019s direction. The strikes are designed to further degrade Iran\u2019s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2078605013878710482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>One service member is still missing, and four others were treated for injuries and released from a Jordanian hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Saturday, CENTCOM announced the IRGC&#8217;s attack on the Jordanian base from a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>President<strong> Donald Trump<\/strong> has not yet given an official statement on the troops killed in action.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke by phone to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/just-in-donald-trump-gives-first-comments-on-troops-killed-by-iran\/\">NewsNation correspondent<\/a> <strong>Hannah Brandt<\/strong> on Saturday evening, one day after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hadn\u2019t heard from the president yet about these deaths, so we decided to call him to see if he had a reaction, and that was the first thing I asked him, what his reaction was to the news of these two U.S. service members that were killed in Iranian attacks yesterday,\u201d Brandt said at the start of her TV report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"26e3b476855edb72ffcd2ae4ca157cd4\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NewsNation exclusive: President Donald Trump responded to the deaths of two U.S. service members who were killed in an Iranian missile attack in Jordan. Trump said the service members died &quot;in service to our country&quot; and reiterated that Iran cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JykOv5Upla\">pic.twitter.com\/JykOv5Upla<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NewsNation (@NewsNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NewsNation\/status\/2078601849117057318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe president telling me he finds it \u2018very sad.\u2019 He says, \u2018it\u2019s a very sad thing. We hate to see it happen,\u2019 but then the president told me, \u2018It\u2019s in service to our country\u2026we\u2019re never, they\u2019re never going to allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,&#8217;\u201d Brandt continued.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cAnd that\u2019s a line we\u2019ve heard from the president before. We know that is his driving force that he has repeatedly said when it comes to this war in Iran. And I quickly asked him what he thought of Iran also saying this weekend that it no longer plans to follow that Memorandum of Understanding. The president telling me, \u2018I couldn\u2019t care less.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/breaking-u-s-launches-retaliatory-strikes-to-swiftly-punish-iran\/\">BREAKING: U.S. Launches Retaliatory Strikes To \u2018Swiftly Punish\u2019 Iran<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Cover Images via AP Images) The U.S. military has launched new airstrikes against Iran to &#8220;swiftly punish&#8221; the Revolutionary Guard for killing at least two American service members. &#8220;Today at 6 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began launching new airstrikes against Iran at the Commander in Chief\u2019s direction,&#8221; U.S. Central Command posted on X on Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/iran-1-1200x800.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}