US Resumes Strikes on Iran; Four Killed at Wedding Party
The United States resumed striking Iran at five o’clock this evening, ending the three-day lull — and shrapnel from one missile hit a home hosting a wedding in southern Iran, killing four people including a young child and injuring more than fifty, the Iranian Red Crescent said. The IRGC fired ballistic missiles at a US Marine base in Aqaba, Jordan, causing no casualties. President Trump called the strikes “large and powerful” and warned a bigger attack is “waiting in the wings”.
The pattern that reasserted itself yesterday broke today, and with it the fiction that this phase could stay calibrated: a wedding party bleeding in Sirik is the image that will travel through the region regardless of what CENTCOM intended to hit, and it hands Tehran the moral currency its own escalations spent. The tit-for-tat now runs strike-for-strike on a same-day cycle — Larak Sunday, Jordan Monday, six Iranian sites today, Aqaba tonight — each round arriving faster than the mediators can shuttle. The IAEA’s late-evening warning that it has lost verification of Iran’s nuclear material adds the darkest thread: a war of attrition around an unmonitored programme. Watch tonight’s hours — Mr Trump’s “waiting in the wings” is either deterrence or a schedule.