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Iran’s armed forces said they carried out a series of missile and drone strikes against United States military bases in Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain and Iraq’s Kurdistan region early on September 2, describing the attacks as retaliation for American strikes inside Iran that killed at least seven service members and five civilians at a wedding.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement its Ground Force struck the command center and living quarters of the U.S. commander at Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait, setting fire to a drone hangar and destroying a number of drones. It claimed that the strike killed a number of U.S. personnel.
In Jordan, the Corps’ Aerospace Force said it carried out a “heavy ballistic-missile strike against the U.S. Marine barracks known as Camp Titiin in Jordan, located on the shores of the Gulf of Aqaba,” according to a second statement.
“The attack killed a large number of U.S. personnel and destroyed several key facilities and the enemy’s attack helicopters,” the Corps said.
A third IRGC statement said the Corps struck hangars housing long-range RQ-4 and MQ-9 drones at another U.S. base in Jordan known as Prince Hassan.
“A number of drones were destroyed, and several pilots and flight technical crewmembers were killed,” the statement said. “Several of their technical infrastructure facilities were also set ablaze.”
The Corps also said it carried out combined missile-and-drone strikes on U.S. bases in Erbil, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The operations “destroyed a maintenance facility and warehouses containing technical equipment belonging to the terrorist US military, and destroyed the guidance system of a US surveillance balloon at the base,” the Corps said.
“The valiant warriors of the Ground Forces also set fire to the fuel storage tanks at the base and killed a number of the aggressors,” it added.
Separately, the IRGC announced that its air defense system had earlier shot down a U.S. MQ-9 drone, the 50th such aircraft it says it has downed since the start of the war on Iran.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Army said it launched the 29th phase of its Operation Sa’eqeh, or Lightning, carrying out a large-scale drone strike against U.S. military facilities at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain, targeting radar installations and gathering points for U.S. forces.
In a statement, the Army called the strike “a forceful and extensive response to the enemy’s acts of aggression” and said its servicemen would “exact a harsh and regret-inducing revenge on the aggressors.”
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said it launched strikes in response to recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members. According to the command, the strikes hit air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, mine-laying capabilities, and communications sites.
In southern Iran, shrapnel from a U.S. missile attack on Sirik county, in Hormozgan province, struck a residential building in the city of Kouhestak that was hosting a wedding ceremony, Farsnews reported. As many as five people were killed, including a child, and 68 others were wounded, according to the report. CENTCOM ignored the incident.
Moreover, three members of the Basij force were killed and several others wounded in a U.S. strike on Lavan Island, said Abdolkarim Pouladifar, deputy commander of the Guards’ Seyed al-Shohada unit in Deyr county.
Meanwhile, in Kermanshah province, four members of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force were killed in a U.S. strike, the Corps’ provincial public relations office said.
In Khuzestan province, the U.S. launched attacks near the cities of Ahvaz and Aghajari, Deputy Governor for Security and Law Enforcement Valiollah Hayati said.
Press TV also reported that U.S. strikes hit the county of Chabahar in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan, among other areas, though it did not provide further detail.
The U.S. launched its first attack on Iran in over a month late on August 30, igniting another confrontation with the Islamic Republic.
The latest wave of American strikes proved particularly deadly. Despite threats from U.S. President Donald Trump—who even vowed to wipe out Iran as a country—the Islamic Republic responded with full force. Even amid this escalation, a return to full-scale war remains highly unlikely. The confrontation could nevertheless drag on for weeks and might expand to involve Israel.
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only a leader challenged by reality takes the bait of 2 missile launchers and escalates the war with troops within range of the enemy undefended , hiding the casualties afterward. ..trump gives up the confidence of his military and any support whatsoever for his war for global zionism.
what the tertiary stages of syphilis will do to the brain of a “leader”… but having said this, what does it say about the american taxpayer that sits on the sideline and continues to watch their economic future disappear?…
…it is very nice of iran to have waited until the us has re-armed itself.
keep it up 🤣🤣🤣
this is just terrible. no gain is available. tired of fools with out sanity.
looks like the us is back to bombing civilians and weddings like they did in afghanistan, but forgets that iran is not afghanistan, and iran can hit back and kill us service personnel.
break out the body bags! load up the c17s! a c17 can hold 200. send the bbq’d kiddie killers home in body bags! the more the merrier.
they may leave then where they lay. like a columbian mercenary in the donbass
so, i’ve noticed that iran has not targeted israel since the 12 day war. this is because they have run out of long range missiles.
past missiles successfully hit tel aviv and hafia. the pause is questionable.
they’ve got plenty. 1. trash all the amerikunt bases in the quisling gulf regimes. check. 2. trash all the amerikunt bases in the quisling jordan regime. check. 3.trash all the amerikunt bases in the kikenreich and kick them out of the whole middle easr. in progress. 4. flatten the kikenreich and remove the joo infestation from occupied palestine. to follow. have some patience. don’t wait for it to happen, just watch and see what does happen.
it’ll all happen in time.
araghchi periodically running off to moscow may have more to do with it than running out of missiles.
dead iranians smell like shit…heheheh
live jooz smell like shit.
meanwhile whilst the usadmin flounders in persia, its nato poodles flounder in europe. the isreali apartheid seems to have lost its appetite for attacking iran. perhaps genocidal murder is taking up more time than was planned for. get ready for a collapse of the global economy. it seems the usadmin is intent on it.
seems to be an all or nothing moment
rusko a čína by mali konečne dodať iránu protilodné strely a tiež dodať spravodajské informácie v reálnom čase, aby irán vedel kam má udrieť. svetu mier a mysleniu zdar.
yet the islamic republic is still doing nothing that will force a change of the status quo in its favour.