TEHRAN (Somaliguardian) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced on Wednesday that it had struck United States military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait, hours after Washington launched a fresh round of airstrikes against Iranian territory — a rapid escalation that has pushed the fragile ceasefire between the two nations closer to collapse than at any point since it was signed.
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its forces carried out a coordinated missile-and-drone strike on the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters at Bahrain’s Port Salman and on the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. The Guard also claimed to have shot down a US MQ-9 reconnaissance drone that it said attempted to disrupt the operation.
Air raid sirens wailed across both Gulf states as their militaries scrambled to intercept the incoming fire. Kuwait’s armed forces confirmed their air defences were actively engaging “hostile” missiles and drones, though neither Washington nor the Pentagon had issued an immediate response by the time of publication.
Washington Strikes First, Then Pulls Iran’s Oil Lifeline
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The retaliation followed a wave of American strikes on Iranian territory and a decision by Washington to revoke a license that had permitted Iran to sell oil on international markets — both moves framed as punishment for a string of attacks on commercial tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
US Central Command said its forces struck more than 60 vessels belonging to the Revolutionary Guard, describing the operation as a deliberate effort to make Iran pay a heavy price for what it called violations of the ceasefire in the strait. In a statement, CENTCOM accused Iranian forces of “unwarranted aggression” that endangers freedom of navigation through one of the world’s most critical oil corridors.
Speaking ahead of a NATO leaders’ summit in Ankara, Secretary-General Mark Rutte backed the American response, calling it essential given Iran’s alleged breach of the truce. He argued that a forceful US reaction was necessary once Iran began violating the ceasefire it had agreed to honour.
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Tehran Vows a “Crushing Response”
Iran’s top military command, the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, denounced the American strikes as a blatant act of aggression and promised a crushing response, warning Washington against interfering in how Tehran manages traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, one of Iran’s senior negotiators, accused the United States of breaching the truce on multiple fronts — citing the fresh military strikes, the reinstatement of oil sanctions, alleged violations of Iran’s own navigational rules in the strait, and continuing Israeli operations in Lebanon. “The era of bullying and extortion is over,” he wrote on X. “We don’t fold.”
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