Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday, November 13, claimed it targeted and destroyed a US military early-warning radar in Bahrain. The strike, it said, was in retaliation for a US aerial attack on a telecommunications tower in Sirik county in southern Iran.Iranian state media reported that the Sirik area in Hormozgan province came under “enemy fire” on Thursday.
The IRGC said its Aerospace Force carried out the Bahrain strike in response, calling it a “serious warning” against further aerial attacks and what it called oil smuggling through the Strait of Hormuz.This marks the first Iranian claim of an attack on US military assets in a Gulf country since early September. Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet.
