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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced it had carried out attacks on United States military assets in Kuwait and Jordan, describing the targeting of bases used in operations against the Islamic Republic as its “legal, religious and logical right.”
In two separate statements addressed to the people of Kuwait and Jordan on July 23, the IRGC said the strikes were retaliation for repeated U.S. aggression against Iran.
In Kuwait, the IRGC said its forces struck Ali Al Salem Air Base, destroying a Patriot air defense system, a large military equipment depot and an MQ-9 drone hangar. It also said drone attacks hit U.S. troop quarters and two helicopter hangars at Camp Udairi, causing casualties and damaging several helicopters and drones.
In Jordan, the IRGC said it destroyed a THAAD missile defense radar, a Patriot system and a C-RAM radar at a U.S. base, adding that precision strikes had set fire to fuel storage facilities, a helicopter equipment warehouse and a helicopter maintenance hangar.
Separately, Iran’s Army said it launched a large-scale drone strike against three U.S. military installations in Kuwait, calling it the 23rd phase of “Operation Saeqeh”.
Loitering munitions struck ammunition and logistics storage areas at Camp Doha, fuel storage facilities at Ali Al Salem Air Base, and an ammunition depot at Camp Arifjan, according to the army, which noted that the latest strikes were carried out in response to continued U.S. attacks on Iranian territory.
Multiple interceptions and impacts were reported in both Kuwait and Jordan, though the scale of damage remains unclear.
Overnight, U.S. strikes hit several locations across the southern, southwestern, western and southeastern regions of the Islamic Republic.
In the southeast, Konarak, in Sistan-Baluchestan province, was struck twice, a provincial security official said. In west-central Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, a location in Kiar county was also targeted, though officials said the attack caused no casualties. Two explosions were likewise reported near Eslamabad-e Gharb, in the western province of Kermanshah, with no casualties, Iranian authorities said.
In the south, a strike on the Strait of Hormuz damaged two rescue vessels, the Naji 15 and Naji 16, in Hormozgan province, the province’s Ports and Maritime Department said, while explosions were heard in Jask, in the same province, according to state broadcaster IRIB.
In the southwest, a strike near the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iraq killed three people, and explosions were reported in Ahvaz, in Khuzestan province, according to an IRGC-affiliated Telegram channel.
A missile strike also hit a location near Andimeshk, also in Khuzestan province, while Ramshir and Ahvaz came under air attack overnight, according to the province’s security and administrative deputy governor and Iran’s IRNA news agency.
U.S. Central Command said in a statement that the strikes targeted maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites, and air defense assets to “further degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels.” The command did not address reports of casualties.
The confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, which began on July 17, has effectively ended the memorandum of understanding signed last month to halt the war.
Recent developments suggest a major regional conflict could break out soon. Yemen’s Houthis have already resumed attacks in the Red Sea, and Israel is reportedly preparing to join the fight. Hezbollah in Lebanon is also said to have been asked by Iran to prepare for war.
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