Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Friday it destroyed a US early-warning radar in Bahrain. The claim, carried by Iranian state media, described the strike as retaliation for an air attack on a telecommunications tower in Sirik, a town on Iran’s southern coast near the Strait of Hormuz.
Neither the US military nor Bahrain’s government had confirmed the claim by Friday morning. No details of damage, casualties or the weapon used were given. The Guard said its aerospace force carried out the strike. It is the first claim of an attack on American military assets in a Gulf country since early September, according to Reuters.
Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which directs American naval operations across the Middle East.
The claim landed a day after President Donald Trump said the United States no longer needed a deal with Iran and pulled Vice President JD Vance off the Iran file. Trump said on Thursday that Saudi Arabia and four other Gulf states, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, had asked him to hold off on further strikes.
Source: The Times
