Iran targets American base after US strikes near Bandar Abbas Airport

2 min readMay 28, 2026 10:46 AM IST

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that they hit a US base early Thursday (May 28), in response to the latest strikes by American forces on the country’s south, Iranian media reported.

The IRGC said that the American air base they hit was the source of the latest US strikes on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas Airport.

“Following the aggression carried out at dawn today by the invading US military against a location on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas Airport using aerial projectiles, the American air base identified as the source of the attack was targeted at 4:50 a.m.,” Fars News Agency reported, citing a statement from the IRGC’s public relations office.

It said that Tehran’s latest response was a “serious warning” to the United States, adding that its “aggression will not go unanswered.”

This comes after the US carried out new strikes targeting Iran’s military facility on Wednesday night, which it said posed a threat to the US forces, said a US official, according to news agency Reuters.

The official said that the US military intercepted and downed four Iranian one-way attack drones that endangered the commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

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