The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued an official statement declaring that, in retaliation for recent U.S. strikes on targets across southern Iran, it launched targeted missile and drone strikes against vital infrastructure at four major American military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.
According to the communiqué, the IRGC’s Naval and Aerospace forces executed the first phase of what they labeled a “punitive response” to “American bad faith,” striking:
Camp Arifjan (Kuwait)Ali Al Salem Air Base (Kuwait)Naval Support Activity Bahrain / Juffair (Bahrain)Isa Air Base (Bahrain)
The IRGC explicitly warned that, should the United States repeat its attacks, the Islamic Republic will expand the scope of its retaliatory strikes to target other American military installations across the region.
Simultaneously, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Parliament and head of the Islamic Republic’s negotiating team, used a post on the social media platform X to accuse the United States of “bullying and breach of trust,” writing: “If you hit, you will get hit back.” Ghalibaf reasserted Tehran’s hardline stance regarding the Strait of Hormuz, claiming that the transit of ships through the waterway will only be permitted under “Iranian arrangements.”
