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Trump threatens to 'beat' Iran following missile attack on US troops in Jordan.

Aug 26, 2026 •Politics

Sign up to DC Insider HERE for a front-row seat on the nation's capital stories or save Daily Mail as a Preferred Source on Google. President Donald Trump is now threatening to 'beat the f****** s*** out of' Iran following an attack on US troops stationed in Jordan. '[They're] going to get a beating,' he told Fox News on Wednesday. This threat comes right after Iran launched ballistic missiles at American forces there, an event US Central Command called an 'attempted surprise attack.' CENTCOM confirmed that the US intercepted every single Iranian missile. In conjunction with Saudi Arabia, the United States struck Iranian-backed militias in Iraq last night as retaliation for drone strikes, not the Jordan missile incident. Trump stated those US-Saudi strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi government. Before the missiles flew, both sides watched a multi-day lull break the silence. That quiet on Saturday and Sunday ended thirteen consecutive days of fighting after a June memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran fell apart. Relative peace had returned for only two days before this latest escalation. A United States F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet takes off from an aircraft carrier on July 21, while Trump takes questions in the Oval Office that same day. This months-long conflict has seen frequent pauses as Washington tries to maneuver Tehran into reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Trump has frequently threatened major escalation against Tehran, including last Thursday when he said he was considering a 'bigger than ever before' attack on the regime. Reporting raises serious questions about whether such escalation could stretch too far the US's diminishing supply of air defense munitions like Patriot missile interceptors. Earlier this week, Trump revisited striking a possible Iranian nuclear facility known as Pickaxe Mountain while rebuking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bringing up the site publicly. Netanyahu met with Trump on Tuesday in their first in-person conversation since before the joint US-Israeli strikes in February. Though recent public friction exists between them, both sides said the meeting was good. Netanyahu called it 'excellent,' and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described it as 'positive and productive.' The Israeli Prime Minister also rubbed shoulders with members of Trump's cabinet on Tuesday while attending late Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral. Trump and Netanyahu pose for a picture before their meeting in the Oval Office, and Netanyahu is seen with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the day of Graham's funeral. Looking back at the fallout, only 35 percent of voters say they still support military action in Iran according to a Daily Mail/JL Partners poll of 1,021 voters conducted in July. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline has risen from just under $3.00 before the war to $4.09 on Wednesday. Eighteen US troops have been killed and more than 600 wounded since the conflict began in February.

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