
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps released footage claiming its naval forces launched missiles at US aircraft at Jordan's Al Azraq air base, in retaliation for a US strike on Qeshm Island that killed three people. This direct military exchange between Iran and the United States signals escalating Middle East conflict consistent with the "wars and rumors of wars" Jesus described as birth pains preceding the end. Such rapid tit-for-tat strikes involving major regional and global powers increase the risk of wider war engulfing the Middle East.