The Iranian army said Thursday morning it launched "many suicide drones" at a Patriot system in Kuwait, a satellite-antenna early-warning site in Qatar, and US fuel storage tanks in Bahrain, vowing to continue attacks until "final victory" and calling the US president "insane."
The Iranian army claimed Thursday morning (July 9) that it launched multiple suicide drones at a Patriot air-defense system in Kuwait, an early-warning satellite antenna in Qatar, and US fuel storage tanks in Bahrain, and vowed to continue attacks until 'final victory,' referring to the US president as 'insane.' The statement, first reported by The Zioneer at 05:54 Jerusalem, follows earlier claims from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that it struck four US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.
The sequence of claims began around 04:14 Jerusalem, when the IRGC first claimed responsibility for attacks on US bases, later naming specific targets: Camp Arifjan and Ali al-Salem Airbase in Kuwait, and Al-Jufair and Sheikh Isa Airbase in Bahrain. By 04:14, the IRGC also claimed the strikes had caused damage and casualties. The Iranian army then issued its own statement, expanding the targets to include Qatar and specifying the use of 'suicide drones.' The army's statement also included a threat against the US president. The Zioneer covered the development in a full bulletin at 09:29 Jerusalem, noting the claim of retaliation for 'American aggression.'
The claims are part of a broader pattern of escalation between Iran and the US in the Gulf region, as The Zioneer has reported. Background context: earlier this week, satellite imagery confirmed an Iranian drone strike destroyed a US radar site in Bahrain (The Zioneer, June 13), and footage showed a Patriot system intercepting Iranian missiles over southern Bahrain (June 10). The US has also conducted strikes on Iranian targets, including airstrikes on June 27 after an Iranian drone attack on a US merchant vessel.
As of Thursday morning, the claims remain unverified by independent sources. US Central Command has not commented, and the governments of Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain have not issued statements confirming any strikes. The Iranian army's assertion of a multi-front drone attack could not be corroborated, and US officials have previously dismissed similar Iranian claims as unsubstantiated or false.
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- DevelopingIRGC claims drone strike on Ali al-Salem base in Kuwait
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