Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say they targeted US radar in Bahrain
The Guards said the strike answered an attack on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran; the Guards-affiliated Fars news agency said the radar was destroyed.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted a US early-warning radar in Bahrain in retaliation for what it described as an air attack on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran. The Guards-affiliated Fars news agency said the Guards’ Aerospace Force destroyed the radar.
The November 13 claim was the first since early September of an Iranian attack on US military assets in a Gulf country, Reuters said, as cited by Al Jazeera. The war began on 28 February with US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
There was no immediate comment from the US or Bahrain. Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet.
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US Central Command denied that the radar in Bahrain had been destroyed and said US forces intercepted 2 Iranian drones headed for Bahrain, The Guardian reported. The Guards-affiliated Fars news agency had said the Guards’ Aerospace Force destroyed the radar; that claim remains unverified.
US Central Command reported no casualties or damage from the Iranian drone attack targeting Bahrain, DW reported. The command had said US forces intercepted 2 Iranian drones and denied that a US early-warning radar was destroyed.
The stated reason for the strike
The Guards said the tower was attacked in Sirik, a port city in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, on 12 November. Hours before the Bahrain claim, Iran’s state news agency IRNA cited official sources as saying Sirik had been hit by “enemy fire.”
The Guards called the claimed strike a warning against what they described as aerial provocations and oil smuggling in the Strait of Hormuz. They said their Aerospace Force was ready to engage “without limits” if the alleged violations recurred.
Strikes and diplomacy
US President Donald Trump said he had held off on further strikes against Iran at the request of Gulf allies, hours after saying he would not hesitate to launch new attacks. He has also said he is prepared to return to war if the diplomatic track offered by Qatar fails to produce a deal.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said economic pressure on Iran was working well enough to make a return to large-scale military operations unnecessary. US Central Command said its forces continued to enforce a naval blockade on Iranian ports.
Iran’s security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, warned that if the US launched another war, every military base involved from West Asia to Europe would be a legitimate target for Iranian strikes. Iran’s parliament speaker and lead negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, told Al Jazeera that the Strait of Hormuz would never return to its prewar state and that the next move in diplomacy rested with the US.
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