Abdel Bari Atwan

It is a cruel twist of fate that US President Donald Trump directed “fierce” criticisms at Jordan following the killing of three American soldiers and the injury of dozens in an Iranian attack with precision missiles and drones, claiming that “the incident would not have happened if American forces or elements had taken over the mission”.
The American president, who has become a “laughingstock” owing to his military, political, and economic incompetence and conflicting comments, “turned the tables” and blamed Jordan, the “victim”. He should have blamed himself first for entangling the region in the current military, political, and economic chaos, followed by the more than 50,000 American soldiers, two aircraft carriers, 20 American naval frigates, and more than 50 ground bases in the region.

American forces stationed in Jordan, equipped with cutting-edge air defences, are expected to intercept all Iranian missiles while also protecting their personnel and Jordanian citizens. Trump, as usual, avoided responsibility, blaming the host Jordanian state and holding it accountable. He violated all red lines by denigrating the Jordanian army and accusing it of incompetence and failure to defend American personnel appropriately.
We had hoped, out of worry for Jordan, that Jordan’s military leadership would reply to the American president and his overreaches, but this has not occurred as of the writing of these lines.
The delivery of Iranian missiles reaching their American military targets on Jordanian soil verifies two key points:
• The first: These missiles have superior technology, engineering, and precision.
• The second point is that American missile defence systems are no longer capable or efficient in intercepting and destroying these Iranian missiles.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard confirmed what we previously stated in its statement: the number of casualties among American forces in Jordan was higher than the figures acknowledged by American military leadership, and Iranian missiles destroyed an American “F-15” fighter jet at one of Jordan’s airports. We believe the Iranian statement is credible because the American press and television stations have questioned the official military information about the actual numbers of American casualties and injuries, as well as the number of military equipment destroyed by the Iranian bombardment, whether in Jordan or at American military bases in the Arabian Gulf region such as Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, and Qatar.

When the mayor of “Ramat Gan” decides today to open all the shelters in the city, which is part of the Greater Tel Aviv area, and the officequipment itemsli Broadcasting Authority confirms that the military command has raised the alert level in anticipation of an imminent Iranian missile strike to hit the “Israeli” depth, amid Trump’s threats to bomb Iranian civilian infrastructure such as power plants and bridges, this indicates that the circle of war is expanding in a way

The flames have reached the Jordanian garment’s edge, and in the following days, they may reach the heart and head of the Israeli garment. We must always remember that this war of attrition will enter its sixth month in a few days, and neither America nor Israel, which lit the spark, have achieved any of their objectives. The results have been opposite, favouring the resilience of the attacked Iran.
Jordan is like barley bread to Americans—it is both eaten and denounced at the same time, neither complimented nor thanked, but totally criticised… This is America, which cannot defend its own soldiers while attempting to protect others, particularly Arabs, and hence is on the verge of quick collapse and unavoidable defeat.