US Central Command said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers following attempted attacks on US warships, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed continued strikes. Iran then threatened ships in Kuwaiti and Bahraini ports hosting Americans ▻ ↧ Iran attacks US base in Jordan, ships near Hormuz after tankers sunk Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it ​fired ballistic missiles at a base in Jordan used by the U.S. military and attacked 10 ships, after the U.S. said it had destroyed ‌five Iranian oil tankers, in a sharp escalation of the six-month-old war.