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IAC between Iran and Jordan

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IAC between Iran and Jordan

By juliette

The IAC between Iran and Jordan was triggered on 28 February 2026 when Iran launched missiles against the Muwaffaq Al Salti Air Base in Amman, which is officially a Jordanian air base hosting US forces.1‘Military Bases in Jordan’, Military Base Guides. Specifically, the base supports the United States Air Force Central’s 33 2nd Air Expeditionary Wing responsible for missions in the Levant and a key hub for US air power in the Gulf.2L. Korte, ‘Here’s what’s going on at US bases in Middle East amid Iran attacks’, Stars and Stripes, 1 March 2026; ‘Multiple Arab states that host US assets targeted in Iran retaliation’, Al Jazeera, 28 February 2026. On 6 March, an Iranian drone strike hit buildings on the Muwaffaq Al Salti Air Base that house AN/TPY-2 radar equipment.3T. Bordeaux and G. Mezzofiore, ‘Radar bases housing key US missile interceptor hit in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, satellite images show’, CNN, 6 March 2026; V. Beauleet al, ‘US and allied radar sites in the Middle East struck at least 10 times: Visual analysis’, ABC News, 18 March 2026. The strike damaged a Thaad radar, which forms a crucial part of the ground-based missile-defense system that intercepts ballistic missiles.4A. Capaccio and G. Doyle, ‘Iran Hits Key US Radar, Deepening Gulf Missile Defense Woes’, Bloomberg, 6 March 2026; M. Scanlon, ‘Iranian strikes target the infrastructure behind US airpower’, Defense News, 1 April 2026; S. Holliday, ‘U.S. Rushing to Replace Thaad Radar in Jordan’, The Wall Street Journal, 6 March 2026. By end March, Jordan claimed to have intercepted over 240 missiles and drones since the start of the conflict.5L. Aljindy, ‘Jordan says over 240 missiles and drones intercepted since start of war’, AA, 28 March 2026; ‘Jordan says downs vast majority of incoming missiles, drones during regional conflict’, Xinhua, 4 April 2026.

An actual definitive closure of military operations, as displayed above, cannot be observed in the belligerent relationship between Iran and Jordan at the time of writing. The IAC between Iran and Jordan was thus ongoing at the time of writing.