Two C-130 aircraft were lost during the operation, an official said.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Wednesday denied President Donald Trump’s claim that the country’s president had requested a ceasefire, calling it “false and baseless,” state TV reported.
Iran has continued to fire dozens of drones and multiple missiles at Israel and Gulf countries across the region Wednesday.
Fifteen drones and three cruise missiles were "addressed" but one projectile struck a fuel tank at Kuwait's International Airport, Kuwait's army said in a post on X.
Air defense in the United Arab Emirates "engaged" five ballistic missiles and 35 drones from Iran, the Ministry of Defense said in post on social media.
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense announced it downed more than 10 Iranian drones overnight in a post on X.
These missile interceptions come as Qatar announced an oil tanker in its territorial waters was hit by an Iranian drone Wednesday.
President Donald Trump said that Iran's "new regime president" asked for a ceasefire, calling him "much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors," in a post on social media.
"We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!" Trump said.
President Donald Trump told The Telegraph newspaper he is strongly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO, criticizing the reluctance of allied nations to join the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.
"I would say [it's] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin knows that too, by the way," he said in the interview, which was published on Wednesday.
Trump told The Telegraph he thought allies joining the war should have been "automatic," even though he did not consult with them before attacking Iran.
"We've been there automatically, including Ukraine. Ukraine wasn't our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren't there for us."
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was asked about Trump's comments at a news conference on Wednesday morning and defended his decision to stay out of the war.
"I have to act in our national interests," Starmer told reporters. "This is not our war," he continued, noting "a good deal of pressure on me to change my position in relation to joining the war. I'm not going to change my position on the war."
-ABC News' Justin Gomez and Joe Simonetti
