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Jordan downs three more Iranian missiles

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Jordan's armed forces downed three Iranian missiles on Tuesday with no casualties or damage, a separate engagement from the interception two days earlier.

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Key takeaway

Three Iranian missiles downed over Jordan on Tuesday, with no casualties and no damage reported.

Jordan's armed forces downed three Iranian missiles on Tuesday 21 July, with no casualties and no damage reported ¹.

This was a separate engagement from the one on 19 July, when Jordanian air defences stopped most of a wave fired at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base . Amman publishes these counts, which is more than most governments under fire are willing to say. It hosts American air and missile defence units in its eastern desert, and it is absorbing strikes aimed at forces it houses rather than forces it commands.

A clean interception leaves nothing to report beyond the number. Jordan has now had two of them inside three days without a casualty, at the same base where American air defence soldiers were killed last week.

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In plain English

Jordan's armed forces say their air defence systems shot down three Iranian missiles heading for Jordanian territory on Tuesday 21 July. Jordan's armed forces reported no casualties and no material damage. This is separate from an earlier incident on 19 July, when Jordan intercepted eight of ten missiles fired at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, the base where American soldiers were killed. Separately, Iran's Revolutionary Guard has claimed Jordanian civilians helped Iran target its strikes by supplying intelligence. Jordan has not said anything publicly about that claim, either to confirm or deny it.

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Root Causes

This is Jordan's second reported interception inside three days: on 19 July, Jordanian air defences intercepted eight of ten missiles fired at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base . The 21 July engagement, three missiles downed with no casualties or damage, is a distinct incident rather than a continuation of the same barrage, and Jordan's own account gives no target for this second attempt.

The unanswered thread across both incidents is the IRGC's claim that Jordanian civilians supplied targeting intelligence for Iran's strikes, which Amman has not addressed. Jordan intercepting further Iranian missiles two days after that claim surfaced, without responding to it, leaves the accusation open rather than resolved.

Sources:CNN Arabic·CNN Arabic

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Update #159 · A second strait closes by radio alone

CNN Arabic· 22 Jul 2026

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Jordan stops three of four incoming missiles

The 19 July interception of eight of ten missiles at Muwaffaq Salti is the prior engagement this 21 July three-missile interception is distinct from.

Occurred 18 Jul 2026

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Jordan downs three more Iranian missiles

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