Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday it targeted dozens of US military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait in retaliation for US strikes, in a statement carried by state television.
The statement said, “In an initial response to this aggression, the Revolutionary Guard’s naval and aerospace forces carried out a joint operation using missiles and drones, targeting 85 major US military facilities” in both countries, and shot down an MQ-9 drone.
Media outlets quoted the Iranian military as saying: “We targeted an American base in Bahrain and we pledge to launch more attacks if America repeats its strikes on Iran.”
The Fars News Agency quoted a statement from the Revolutionary Guard saying that the United States had violated the ceasefire by launching raids on sites in the coastal cities of Hormozgan and Mahshahr.
He explained that the operation targeted Salman Port, the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, as part of 85 US military facilities.
On Tuesday evening, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced a series of attacks on Iran, “in response to its attacks targeting three commercial vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz.”
The Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, Iran’s supreme joint military command, condemned the US strikes as a “blatant act of aggression,” threatened a “crushing response,” and warned that Tehran would not allow US interference in the management of the Strait.
The US strikes on Iran killed a member of the Revolutionary Guard's naval forces in the southwest of the Islamic Republic, according to the state news agency IRNA.
The agency quoted a statement from the Revolutionary Guard saying that Mohammad Reza Khazini, affiliated with its third naval region, “was martyred (…) after being hit by shrapnel from a projectile while participating in countering hostile drones” in the port of Mahshahr, near Iraq.
