India, July 30 -- The US military carried out strikes on Iranian targets a day after Tehran's ballistic missile attack on American bases in Jordan, escalating the five-month-long conflict that had already spread beyond its main battlefronts.

It also comes after US President Donald Trump vowed to "beat the f------ s--- out of them".

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