Yemen's Ansarallah struck the Saudi Aramco refinery in Jizan just one day after Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed the Mecca defense pact, under which an attack on any one of the three countries is to be treated as an attack on all.
NYT admits that Iran carried out 3 previously undisclosed attacks on US forces in Jordan before the July 18 strike, injuring dozens of American troops and damaging several helicopters.
Pentagon did not publicly disclose the earlier attacks, casualties, or damage
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Iranians are gathering on bridges and around power plants, forming human chains after threats of US and Israeli strikes on Iran's civilian infrastructure.