Donald Trump: "in response to the Iranians’ failed attempt to lay sea mines in the strait"

After new American airstrikes on Iranian sites, Iran reported launching missiles at U.S. targets in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain, with Jordan saying it intercepted ten missiles. The strikes followed a U.S. attack on Iran that Iran's Red Crescent said killed four people. President Trump described the U.S. action as a response to Iran's unsuccessful bid to place naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz and an Iranian missile barrage on a U.S. base in Jordan that was shot down. The exchange is part of a broader conflict set off by U.S./Israeli strikes that killed Iran's supreme leader, and has left the Strait of Hormuz closed with tankers recently hit.