The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it carried out retaliatory attacks against an enemy vessel, the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and a regional American airbase after what it described as two US attacks on Iranian assets.
In a statement carried by Press TV, the IRGC said a US aerial strike damaged the engine room of an Iranian oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz late on Tuesday.
It said the IRGC Navy responded by targeting what it described as an “American-Zionist enemy vessel” named Panaya.
The IRGC also said the United States later struck a communications tower on Qeshm Island, prompting the IRGC Aerospace Force to launch missile and drone attacks against a regional US air and helicopter base and the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet.
The claims have been disputed by US Central Command (Centcom), which has said Iranian assertions about strikes on US bases are false.
