Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Friday that it had targeted a US early-warning radar system in Bahrain, marking the first such announcement of an attack on US military sites in a Gulf country since early September.
Iranian state media quoted the IRGC as saying the strike was carried out in retaliation for what it described as an air attack on a communications tower in the city of Sirik, in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province.
The announcement comes amid a relative lull in the conflict with the United States, which began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 and has since expanded to involve other countries across the region.
Neither the United States nor Bahrain has issued a comment so far.
