Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said they attacked Gulf states overnight and targeted US military bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan as Washington and Tehran both contested the control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Missile alert sirens sounded at dawn on Monday in Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet. The IRGC said it hit the US base at Sheikh Isa in Bahrain in its second phase of retaliatory strikes.
The IRGC said it fired missiles and drones at fuel tanks and ammunition depots, setting them on fire at Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan, calling these attacks the first phase of response to the US attacks on Iranian coastal bases.
Just hours earlier, the US military announced it has launched more strikes on Iran “to hold Iranian forces accountable” as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz escalate.
The Central Command said Iran “does not control it”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade.”
But Iran’s IRGC countered: “The Strait of Hormuz is our territory, and we will not allow a rogue and child-killing army from the other side of the world to continue its illegal interference in it.”
Speaking to NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump said on Sunday: “They agreed to a deal yesterday – a perfect deal for us, no nuclear, no this, no that, no nothing, they gave up everything – and then after that, they left the room, and then within an hour they launched a drone at a ship.”
“We bombed the hell out of them last night. They are very, very evil and sick people,” he added.