US confirms two troops killed in Jordan attacks, Iran suspends interim peace deal commitments after seventh night of US strikes, infrastructure claims spread from bases to bridges and water systems

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Two US service members were killed in Jordan during Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks, according to US Central Command, as Washington carried out a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iranian targets. Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in a statement read on state television, called Donald Trump’s signature on an interim peace deal “worthless and invalid” and said Tehran was suspending its commitments to the agreement. The Independent reported that another US service member is missing after the Jordan attacks and that several others were medically evacuated and later discharged.

The latest exchange pushes the conflict outward from the Strait of Hormuz into the architecture of US basing and Gulf-state critical infrastructure. The Independent said Iran struck a US military support centre at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait and destroyed a radar facility at Ali Al Salem Air Base, while Kuwait’s armed forces said they intercepted incoming missiles and drones. Gulf capitals have spent years buying air-defence systems to reduce their dependence on political assurances; in practice, the first public accounting still comes from military communiqués and the status updates of evacuated personnel.

At the same time, the target set is drifting from launch sites and depots toward systems that keep cities functioning. Iranian officials and state media have accused the US of hitting civilian infrastructure, with Dagens Nyheter reporting claims that bridges, a train station and an airport were struck, and that a desalination-related pump was hit. The reporting also underscores how quickly information becomes part of the battlefield: Iranian claims of burning tankers after mines were disputed by Centcom, while the BBC was cited as confirming an attack on a bridge in Hormozgan province.

The commercial consequence is already visible in the waterway both sides say they are fighting over. DN cited CNN as reporting that only a small number of vessels passed through Hormuz over the previous day, a reminder that shipping does not need to stop completely for the economic damage to compound—rerouting, insurance pricing and “dark” transponder behaviour do much of the work.

In Jordan, the same day’s military summary included two deaths, one missing person and a handful of hospital discharges.