The IRGC said in a statement on Friday that the operation was conducted in response to US attacks launched from bases in Jordan against civilian targets in southern Iran.
Addressing the Jordanian people, the IRGC said they were living in a land associated with the prophets and were among the nations closest to the Palestinian cause and most familiar with the suffering of the oppressed people of Gaza and the West Bank.
The statement noted that after Iran’s previous attack on the US Al Udeid base in Qatar, the US military had relocated the headquarters of its Central Command (CENTCOM) from Qatar to Al-Azraq in Jordan in an effort to move it away from the reach of Iranian retaliatory strikes.
The IRGC stated that, in addition to CENTCOM facilities, a Jordanian air base hosts dozens of US aerial refueling aircraft as well as F-35, F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, which have been used to launch air attacks against Palestinians, Iranians and Lebanese people.
According to the statement, the US military used its bases in Jordan the previous night to carry out war crimes against civilian targets in southern Iran, including several bridges, residential areas and a water pumping station in Bandar Abbas.
The IRGC said that, in response to those attacks, its forces carried out the 14th wave of Operation Nasr-2, targeting US fighter jets and aerial refueling aircraft stationed in Jordan in two separate strikes using several ballistic missiles and multiple drones.
It stated that the operation resulted in the destruction of several US refueling aircraft and fighter jets, while causing serious damage to a larger number of other aircraft.
The IRGC concluded its statement by calling on the Jordanian people and the country’s armed forces to act against the interests of the “aggressive and anti-Islam US,” and to remove the presence of “occupying Americans” from Jordan.