Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has published footage of missile launches it said were aimed at American military facilities in several Arab countries, describing the operation as retaliation for recent US attacks.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have surged in recent days alongside a parallel escalation between Iran and Israel.
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US Central Command said it carried out strikes inside Iran on Tuesday after a US Apache military helicopter was lost near the Strait of Hormuz, an incident Washington blamed on Tehran.
The IRGC claimed the American strikes damaged a telecommunications tower on Sirik Island and destroyed two civilian water reservoirs in the Bemani district.
It said its response included attacks on the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and four targets at Jordan’s al-Azraq air base, including hangars housing F-35 fighter jets.
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Video released by Iran shows several missiles being launched at night. The IRGC said drones were also used in the operation and claimed that 21 targets were engaged in Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain, including a Reaper drone.
Jordan’s military said it intercepted five ballistic missiles, with footage of the incident appearing online. Kuwaiti officials also reported intercepting aerial targets, while air raid sirens were heard in Bahrain, according to media reports.
The US has described its strikes on Iran as “defensive” and “proportional,” saying the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was shot down over international waters in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi repeated Tehran’s position that no international waters exist in the strategic passage separating Iran from Oman.
Earlier, Iran hit targets in Israel, saying the strikes were retaliation for Israel’s continued invasion of southern Lebanon and attacks on Beirut. West Jerusalem later responded with strikes of its own, despite calls by US President Donald Trump not to escalate further.
Tehran considers Israel’s operation in Lebanon a breach of a ceasefire announced by the US and Iran in April, which was presented as part of an effort to reach a peace agreement.
Trump has argued that “moderate” shooting (of civilian infrastructure) does not amount to a violation of a Middle East truce.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
So the US military also cut off the peace treaty, just like Israel always does?
Iran should keep striking back and disregard the peaceful moves by her so-called friends aimed at making Iran capitulate. Give in now and you will be attacked again next year. Iran must contact North Korea for advice.
Well said !
Donald has announced he intends to “heavily bomb” Iran also he has had talks with his Defense team about using nuclear weapons to “shorten the war ” and his staff are “near agreement ” on it . If that doesn’t show you a guy who needs to sit in a psychiatric chair and get intensive deep treatment I don’t know what does . Once again the “trigger happy ” USA has no thoughts on the massive loss of civilian lives and the long term radiation deaths as I keep saying –anybody who isn’t American are foreigners and that’s the State… Read more »