Iran shows it can withstand US attacks and deliver deadly counterstrikes
Amir Hossein Khorgooei/ISNA/AFP/Getty Images As the United States and Iran trade air and missile strikes for the ninth straight night, Tehran is proving it can withstand the firepower Washington is employing and still respond with a lethality that the US military hasn’t seen since the early days of the war.
A heavily-damaged bridge which was hit by a US strike is pictured along the road connecting Roudan and Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on July 18, 2026.
Iranian missile and drone strikes on US forces in Jordan and Iraq have left at least three US troops dead, another missing, and more wounded.
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