Trump vows to hit Iran hard after first exchanges of fire in a month

INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

DUBAI/ASHEVILLE, North Carolina: US President Donald Trump threatened further strikes against Iran on Monday after the first exchange of direct attacks in a month, raising tensions in a conflict that had recently shifted into an economic standoff. Iran launched missiles overnight at two US air bases in Jordan in response to a US attack on Iran’s Larak Island, where Washington said it had struck Iranian launchers firing mines into the Strait of Hormuz.