President Trump's profanity-laced tirade about Iran has shocked people all over the globe, and it appears that things are about to get really crazy in the Middle East. At the end of last week, all of the signs were pointing in the direction of a major escalation of the Great Middle East War, but then President Trump suddenly decided to stop shooting because he wanted to give diplomacy with Iran another chance. But instead of negotiating, the Iranians launched a surprise attack on a U.S. military base in Jordan instead…

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on July 28 announced that Iran launched a series of ballistic missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan, in what the federal agency called a "surprise attack" that day.

The attack took place at 5:45 p.m. ET, when CENTCOM said Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces launched "multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces" in the Middle East.

For a long time, Iran has been responding to attacks from the United States.

But now they have taken the initiative, and we are being told that they "see themselves as having the upper hand"…

Iran's surprise missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan shows Tehran's military leaders would rather risk ramping up the war than play defense or accept a peace deal that would expose them to greater domestic political pressures.

Iran fired ballistic missiles on U.S. troops early Wednesday local time, demonstrating a willingness by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which exerts more power than ever in Tehran, to escalate during a relative lull in the conflict and attempt to seize the initiative after weeks in which Iran has mostly reacted to U.S. and Israeli attacks.

"They see themselves as having the upper hand," said Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow specializing in Iran at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. "It was a signal of a sort of calibrated escalation."

Shortly after Iran's surprise attack, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia conducted a series of joint airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq…

Saudi Arabia entered the Iran war directly Wednesday, joining the United States in airstrikes against Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq.

The operation marked the first time Riyadh publicly acknowledged taking part in combat alongside U.S. forces during the conflict.

U.S. and Saudi officials said the strikes were retaliation for drone attacks launched from Iraq against Saudi oil facilities.