{"id":19153,"date":"2026-07-20T11:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19153"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:33:31","slug":"trump-says-new-iran-strikes-honor-great-patriots-killed-in-jordan-iraq-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19153","title":{"rendered":"Trump says new Iran strikes honor &#8216;great patriots&#8217; killed in Jordan, Iraq attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><!----><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Mon Jul 20 2026 06:47:35 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\">40 mins ago<\/time><!----><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><!--(-->US completes new wave of strikes against Iran after American troops killed in Jordan, Iraq attacks<!--)--><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--(--><!--(--><!----><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>U.S. Central Command announced late Sunday that U.S. forces successfully completed a ninth consecutive evening of strikes against Iranian targets after earlier confirming the deaths of three American troops in Jordan and Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;CENTCOM assets targeted Iranian military command centers, air defense and coastal surveillance sites, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and communications networks to further diminish Iran&#8217;s ability to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz,&#8221; CENTCOM said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. military is holding Iran accountable at the Commander in Chief&#8217;s direction. CENTCOM forces remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready,&#8221; the post continued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>The strikes come after CENTCOM confirmed two U.S. service members were killed in Jordan on Friday during an Iranian attack, while a separate U.S. service member was killed on Saturday in Iraq during a \u201ccontrolled detonation\u201d of a downed Iranian drone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>President Donald Trump on Sunday paid tribute to U.S. service members killed in recent attacks linked to Iran, saying American forces launched another round of strikes &#8220;in honor&#8221; of them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>At Joint Base Andrews, Trump also said the service members had sacrificed their lives to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;Well, we feel very badly. But you know, those great people, those great patriots were out there fighting so that Iran could not have a nuclear weapon,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cWe hit them very hard again tonight,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd we did that in honor of the\u201d soldiers killed, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p><em>Fox News Digital&#8217;s Landon Mion and Emma Bussey contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--)--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 mins ago US completes new wave of strikes against Iran after American troops killed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}