Iran live updates: Trump says US will hit Iran 'hard' following Jordan missile attack

President Donald Trump is pledging the U.S. will respond to an overnight missile attack launched by Iran.

Describing the missile attack as a surprise, Trump told Fox News on Wednesday, "we'll be hitting them [Iran] hard” and added, "they're going to get a beating."

Trump said U.S. forces at the targeted facilities shot down the incoming missiles and had only minutes to respond to what U.S. Central Command called an "attempted surprise attack."

Commenting on overnight U.S.-Saudi strikes on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, Trump said the Tehran-aligned groups were a "cancer on the world."

On Tuesday’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the president said that it was a great meeting and said that he believes his relationship with Netanyahu is strengthening.

Trump said that the meeting was great in terms of possible talks with the Iranian regime, and pledged that the U.S. is going to allow negotiators to keep talking. The Iranians have repeatedly rejected that there are ongoing talks.

Jordan's official Petra news agency said the country's air defenses shot down five missiles fired from Iran on Wednesday morning.

The Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday posted a statement to X condemning what it called "reprehensible drone attacks carried out against the Kingdom by Iran-backed militias in Iraq, and reaffirming the Kingdom's determination to deter the perpetrators and its right to respond."

The statement said that the joint U.S.-Saudi strikes "were undertaken in the exercise." The ministry added that Riyadh "does not seek escalation," but "should it be subjected to any further attacks, it will not hesitate to take all necessary measures to safeguard its sovereignty and protect its citizens and national assets."

The ministry posted the statement hours after U.S. and Saudi forces launched airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. The strikes were a response to three days of attacks on Saudi energy sites launched from inside Iraq.

The Saudi ministry said it was "exerting every effort to help de-escalate tensions in the region in a manner that preserves its security and stability."

"These Iran-backed terrorist militias chose a reckless path of escalation, in blatant violation of international law, in disregard of the obligations of Islamic brotherhood, including adherence to the principles of good neighborliness," it added.

-ABC News' Clark Bentson

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia carried out “precision strikes” inside Iraq targeting Iran-backed proxy groups, U.S. Central Command said Tuesday, a move that comes in response to the attacks on Saudi energy sites from inside Iraq over the last three days.

"U.S. and Saudi fighter aircraft struck multiple terrorist logistics and weapons sites across eastern Iraq in a strong response to over 30 IRGC-directed aerial drone attacks in the last 72 hours," CENTCOM said in a statement.

The strikes were carried out against "Iran-aligned terrorists that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed to attack U.S. forces and Saudi energy infrastructure," CENTCOM said.