The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and national army have announced a series of missile and drone strikes against US military positions across Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan, describing the attacks as retaliation for American strikes on Iranian territory.
The IRGC issued multiple statements early Wednesday detailing the destruction of key US military infrastructure, including a Patriot air defense complex, a satellite communications center, and HIMARS rocket launch platforms in Kuwait. The attacks were carried out under “Operation Nasr 2” in the IRGC’s “seventh wave” of retaliation.
IRGC messages to Kuwait and Jordan
In a statement addressed to the people of Kuwait, the IRGC said its ground and aerospace forces targeted “the satellite communications center, missile and air defense radar, the Patriot air defense complex, the US military base depot in Kuwait, and HIMARS rocket launch platforms”.
The statement said the attacks came in response to US strikes on southern Iran, which the IRGC said included bombing “a wheat storage facility in Hoveyzeh, Khuzestan, and a mineral water factory in Dehloran, Ilam”.
“We have no enmity with you and we greatly love the noble people of Kuwait,” the IRGC said in its message to Kuwaiti citizens, urging them to “expel these child-killing occupiers from your land”.
In a separate statement addressed to the people of Jordan, the IRGC said its forces “smashed the hangars of F-15, F-16, and F-35 fighter jets and destroyed a number of MQ-9 strategic drones” at the US base in al-Azraq, Jordan.
The statement described Jordan as “the resting place of the prophets” and urged Jordanians to end the presence of “the army of the Great Satan” on their soil.
Targets in Bahrain and Kuwait
The IRGC also reported strikes on the US Fifth Fleet’s facilities in Bahrain. According to statement No. 12, “the NSA management center, command and control center, large warehouses of parts and military equipment, and fuel tanks of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain were destroyed”.
Additional strikes targeted Sheikh Isa base in Bahrain, where “several warehouses containing weapons and parts of enemy vessels and aircraft were destroyed,” and the Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait, where MQ-9 drone platforms were hit.
In statement No. 11, the IRGC said it had set fire to “the KJL main logistics and support center of the US Army in West Asia in Mina Abdullah, Kuwait”.
Army’s eighth phase of operations
Iran’s national army also announced it had conducted the eighth phase of its “Saegheh” (Lightning) operations, targeting US strategic centers in Jordan for a second time.
According to the army’s statement, “the position of F-18 fighter jets and large equipment warehouses of the terrorist US Army in al-Azraq base, Jordan, were targeted by destructive drones”.
The army said it has carried out six phases of drone operations against US bases since what it called the US “violation of the ceasefire”.
Strait of Hormuz blockade warning
The IRGC statements also warned that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed “until the end of America’s mischief”.
In one statement, the IRGC declared that “not a single drop of oil and gas will be exported from the region” as long as US actions continue.
“The enemy should know that now that its pirates have blocked the export route of oil and gas to the world from the Indian Ocean, endangering the interests of America’s economic rivals, it should expect other export routes supplying US and allied interests to be blocked,” the IRGC said.
“Oil and gas exports from the region are either for everyone or for no one.”
