Iran Says Forces Targeted U.S. Early-Warning Radar in Bahrain
The claim, which could not be independently verified, came as U.S. Central Command said it shot down two Iranian drones headed toward Bahrain.
- On Friday, United States forces shot down two Iranian attack drones heading toward Bahrain, with U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, confirming no injuries or damage occurred.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, claimed it struck a U.S. early-warning radar in Bahrain in 'retaliation' for a U.S. air attack on a telecommunications tower in Hormozgan Province.
- CENTCOM rejected the Iranian claim, insisting the drones were intercepted before reaching their target; Bahrain hosts the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters, which oversees American naval operations across the Gulf.
- Separately on Friday, the IRGC reported a tanker struck a mine in the Strait of Hormuz, though neither the radar strike claim nor the tanker incident could be independently verified.
- These incidents occur amid a fragile lull in the conflict between the United States and Iran, which has spread across the region since U.S. and Israeli strikes began on February 28.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it destroyed an American early-warning radar in Bahrain, home of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, in retaliation for a strike on southern Iran. It is Tehran’s first claimed attack on a U.S. military asset since early September, and it comes days after Donald Trump called new major strikes “highly unlikely.”
The Revolutionary Guards, the powerful army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.S. radar system in Bahrain on Friday, the first strike against a Gulf country since early September.
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