Operation Nasr-2

Operation Nasr-2 is a name the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) Aerospace Force, not Iran's regular army, has attached to a wave of claimed strikes against targets in Jordan. On 20 July the IRGC said the operation's 21st wave hit the Azraq area and Aqaba Airport, destroying 20 hangars and heavily damaging C-17 and P-8 aircraft, and thanked the Jordanian public and armed forces for supplying intelligence.

No part of the claim is corroborated by any US, Jordanian or Kuwaiti source. It was carried solely by Press TV, Iran's state broadcaster, and should be read as Tehran's assertion rather than an established fact. The claim names no individual, and Jordan's government has not addressed it; a genuine intelligence tip-off naming real sources would not ordinarily be publicised, which is itself a reason to treat the stated motive with caution rather than as evidence of Jordanian involvement.

The naming also marks an internal Iranian rivalry. The regular army's Artesh has separately branded its own overlapping Gulf target set Operation Saeqeh, running by mid-July to phases 14 and 15 across Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, so Nasr-2's branding says more about which force is competing for credit in Tehran than about what was actually hit at Aqaba. Reading IRGC and Artesh claims as competing internal narratives, rather than as consistent military reporting, is necessary for any accurate account of the war's Gulf theatre.