Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it struck a U.S. early-warning radar in Bahrain on Nov. 13, describing the attack as retaliation for an airstrike on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran. (Foto: Instagram)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it attacked a U.S. early-warning radar in Bahrain on Friday, Nov. 13, during a truce. Iran described the strike as retaliation for an air attack on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran. Neither the United States nor Bahrain had commented, according to the report.
There had been no reports of attacks on U.S. facilities in the Gulf since September. Iran’s state-run Tasnim news agency said the Revolutionary Guard characterized the radar strike as a “serious warning.”
In a statement carried by Tasnim, the group called on what it termed the “aggressor enemy” to stop air provocations and oil smuggling in the Strait of Hormuz. It warned that if violations and attacks continued, the IRGC’s Aerospace Force would be on high alert and prepared to respond “without geographic limits.”
The claim came amid tensions over the Strait of Hormuz and the prospect of negotiations. On Thursday, Nov. 12, U.S. President Donald Trump ruled out a possible peace agreement with Iran and said U.S. forces controlled the strait. “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump said, adding that those days were over and that the United States had Iran’s money—“hundreds of billions of dollars”—as well as “their strait.”
