Trump said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had "Venezuela on his mind."
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint.
The Kuwait Army issued an alert that its air defenses are "confronting hostile missile and drone attacks."
"The General Staff of the Army notes that if explosion sounds are heard, they are the result of air defense systems intercepting the hostile attacks," the Kuwait Army said.
-ABC News' William Gretsky
Over a dozen ballistic missiles were fired at Jordan were but all were intercepted or fell in remote areas Tuesday, Jordanian officials said.
Separately, a U.S. official told ABC News that U.S. forces shot down Iranian missiles, but didn't give more specifics.
Jordanian Armed Forces said that it intercepted 10 missiles and three fell "in remote areas far from population centers."
There were no injuries or deaths reported by Jordanian officials.
-ABC News' Luis Martinez and William Gretsky
Iranian state media said Iran is now striking back after the U.S. launched strikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets on Tuesday.
Iranian state media Tasnim news claimed an American MQ9 drone was shot down by a new Iranian air defense system in the Khomein area.
President Donald Trump confirmed that the U.S. is currently striking Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, posting on social media that these strikes are "retaliation" to Iran’s "failed attempt at adding sea mines" to the strait and because of its strikes on a U.S. military base in Jordan over the weekend.
"The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan,” Trump said on his social media platform on Tuesday.
On Sunday, a U.S. official said the U.S. struck Iranian rocket launch sites, claiming the IRGC had been preparing rockets armed with sea mines-- an attack that prompted Iran to respond with strikes in Jordan and the UAE.
In his post Tuesday, Trump then issued a warning to Iran, saying it will be "hit again at a much harder and higher level" if it retaliates after Tuesday's strike.
However, Trump clarified that a U.S. response to Iran’s retaliation will "not be the biggest attack of them all," saying a strike of that magnitude is "waiting in the wings" and would result in "very little" being left in the country of Iran.
"If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!" he said.
