US will hit Iran ‘hard’ after attack on bases in Jordan: Trump

President Donald Trump has said the US military will hit Iran “hard” after a missile attack against US bases in Jordan, Fox News reported.

“We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating,” Fox’s correspondent quoted Trump as saying on Wednesday, adding that the US president used swear words to emphasise his point: “We are going to beat the ‘effing s’ out of them.”

Trump also told Fox that US-Saudi bombing of pro-Iranian militias overnight inside Iraq had been coordinated with the authorities in Baghdad, despite the Iraqi government publicly condemning the attacks.

Trump “says those strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi government,” the Fox correspondent said after talking with the US leader.

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The Iraqi presidency said it “denounces the bombing that targeted the Hashed al Shaabi bases and it considers it an unacceptable attack and a blatant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, targeting its official institutions.”