The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Sunday that it hit eight US military sites, including Ali al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait and the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, in retaliation for American strikes on Iranian territory. The claim, made in an IRGC statement, is based on a single Iranian source and has not been independently verified.
At around 03:40 Jerusalem on Sunday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a statement claiming its naval and aerospace forces had carried out a joint missile and drone operation against eight US military facilities, naming Ali al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait and the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain as specific targets. The IRGC framed the operation as retaliation for US attacks on five Iranian coastal positions. The claim, based on a single Iranian source, remains unverified.
The IRGC's latest assertion follows a sequence of similar claims reported by The Zioneer from Sunday's early-morning hours: at 03:40 Jerusalem, the first bulletin reported the IRGC's announcement of a large-scale operation; a second bulletin at the same time specified an IRGC warning of a forceful response to any maritime sovereignty violations; a third bulletin at 03:40 provided a more detailed claim naming the two bases; and a fourth bulletin at 03:40 quoted the IRGC confirming the strikes explicitly as retaliation for Friday's US attacks on Iran. All four bulletins were published at the same minute (03:40 Jerusalem), reflecting a rapid initial flurry of the same single-source Iranian claim. By 04:49 Jerusalem, the desk had published an initial bulletin, and by 05:43 Jerusalem the desk had noted that the claim followed a pattern of IRGC assertions in recent weeks.
As The Zioneer has reported previously, the IRGC has repeatedly claimed strikes against US positions in the Gulf since early June, including a June 10 assertion of suicide drone attacks on the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain. On June 11, the IRGC claimed strikes on five military bases in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain during a night of retaliatory actions against the United States. None of those claims received independent corroboration from US, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, or Bahraini officials.
No US, Kuwaiti, or Bahraini official has commented on the latest IRGC claim, and no independent verification has emerged. The desk has published six versions of this bulletin since 03:40 Jerusalem, all based on the same single IRGC source.
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