Berk Gutay Bokmen and Mohammad Sio – AA.com July 9, 2026
Iran’s army said Thursday it targeted infrastructure at US military bases in Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain in response to recent US attacks on Iranian territory.
In a statement carried by Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, the army said it targeted a Patriot air defense system in Kuwait, a satellite antenna used as an early-warning site in Qatar, and fuel storage facilities belonging to the US military in Bahrain using “large numbers of various types of destructive drones.”
Earlier Thursday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had targeted infrastructure and facilities at US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, vowing not to “leave the US military’s aggressions unanswered.”
The IRGC said the US violated its commitments by carrying out strikes in Iran’s southern coastal provinces, according to a statement carried by IRIB.
It warned the US military that “if it repeats its aggression, our crushing responses will be extended to other US bases in the region.”
“In the first stage of retaliatory measures against the American treaty-breakers, the warriors of the IRGC’s naval and aerospace forces, in a joint missile and drone operation, struck key infrastructure and facilities at two US-occupied colonial bases in Arifan and Ali al-Salem in Kuwait, and Jafair and Sheikh Isa in Bahrain, just hours after the enemy’s attacks and in various locations across the country,” the statement said.
The developments came after Iranian media reported a new wave of US strikes late Wednesday targeting several locations in southern and southeastern Iran.
US Central Command said American forces had launched additional strikes against Iran to further degrade its ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
No good,
Got to hit Israel, HARD.
Russia & China need to ‘flex’ otherwise this is just On Going Panto !
Oh.. I’ve nailed it.
note to IRGC – stop warning the usa with partial reprisals. usa keeps breaking agreements and the partial reprisals do nothing accept indicate to the usa that you do not have the courage to finish off. Suggestion to the IRGC is to go for the ‘porter le coupe de grace’. Only then will it stop the usa damaging your infrastructure, killing citizens and causing mayhem. I am sure you understand the usa is weak having exhausted its ballistic missiles, cannot fight a war either 6000 miles away or a terrain that substantially supports the defender.