The Iranian Army has announced that its forces launched missile and drone attacks targeting US bases in Kuwait and the UAE, attacks that it said were a response to the US strikes against Iran on Tuesday that killed civilians and soldiers.
According to Iran’s PressTV, the Iranian Army, officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, claimed that it struck the Ahmed al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait, damaging communications systems and fighter aircraft hangars, and that it also targeted troop deployment areas and radar systems at al-Minhad Air Base in the UAE.
US officials have downplayed the attacks, with one unnamed US official telling CBS News that the strikes didn’t impact US military facilities. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had previously retaliated for the US bombings on Tuesday by targeting US bases in Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
The Iranian retaliation came after President Trump threatened major escalations against Iran if it responded to the US bombings. “If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Iranian officials have vowed there would be revenge for the US strikes, which killed at least 18 people. At least five people, including a four-year-old, were killed when a strike hit a home where a wedding was taking place.
Mohsen Rezae, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said that the US will be facing a “new strategy on the battlefield, in diplomacy, and in confronting the economic blockade will shatter your very foundations,” suggesting Iran plans to be more forceful in its retaliation.
