‘They’ll Be Hit Again Much Harder’: Trump Warns Iran Against Retaliation To US Strikes Near Hormuz

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said American forces are striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz, and warned Tehran against retaliation.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called US strikes “very justified” in retaliation for the Iranians’ “failed” attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait of Hormuz

and launching missiles at American military base in Jordan. He added that Iran will be hit again at a “much harder and higher level” if it retaliates to the US strikes.

“The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been

completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan. If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!” Trump wrote.

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard spokesman said the United States will regret its new attacks.

“Severe punishment awaits the aggressors; the United States will regret its new attacks,” said Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi in a post on X, after explosions were heard in multiple areas along and east of Hormuz.

Several explosions were heard in the country’s south along the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state television reported.

“Multiple explosions heard in the east of Bandar Abbas and around Qeshm Island,” state television said, adding that “no incidents or damage have been reported” so far in the southern Hormozgan Province.

After six months of war, the foes remain at an impasse, with Iran keeping the strategic Strait of Hormuz closed and the United States persisting with a counter-blockade of Iranian ports.

On Sunday, the United States carried out its first known strikes on Iran in several weeks, hitting an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz.

Tehran quickly retaliated by attacking US military targets in the Middle East.

Washington said its forces attacked Iranian rocket launchers on the island of Larak to prevent Tehran planting mines in the key shipping lane.

Iran responded with missile and drone attacks aimed at Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, saying they targeted US forces there.