The Brief US forces intercepted all missiles fired in a surprise attack by Iran early Wednesday morning, CENTCOM says. The attack ended a pause in the fighting that lasted several days. Iran’s elite paramilitary forces tried to launch a surprise attack on U.S. forces stationed in the Middle East, only to see none of the missiles fired reach their intended targets. Big picture view:U.S. Central Command explained that Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired multiple missiles from Iranian soil at 5:45 p.m. Bush is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations ExpandThe backstory:The attempted surprise attack ended a multi-day pause in hostilities that ended nearly two weeks of nightly exchanges between the two nations.