Hours after the United States reinstated a naval blockade on southern Iranian ports, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened to target the energy export routes of Washington’s regional allies if restrictions on the Islamic Republic’s oil and gas exports continue.
In a statement released early on Wednesday, July 15, the military branch declared: “Now that American bandits have blocked the path of Iran’s oil and gas exports, they must await the closure of other oil and gas export routes that serve the interests of the U.S. and its allies.”
The IRGC also asserted that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed “until the end of America’s wickedness and aggressive actions,” emphasizing that it would not back down from its stance on blocking maritime transit.
The IRGC claimed that it had targeted, “set fire to, and destroyed” a U.S. military logistics center at Mina Abdulla in Kuwait. It further claimed that the command-and-control center, military equipment warehouses, fuel depots, and infrastructure of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain had been targeted by missile and drone strikes.
In a separate announcement, the IRGC claimed to have targeted and destroyed a “satellite communications center, a missile and air defense radar, a Patriot air defense complex, a U.S. military base depot in Kuwait, and HIMARS missile launchers.”
