Iran strikes US radar site in Bahrain in retaliation
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps says it destroyed a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, calling the strike a response to an attack on Iranian territory.
RastinewsIran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said its air force struck a US early-warning radar site in Bahrain. The statement, numbered 22, called the strike retaliation for an air raid the previous night on a communications tower in the city of Sirik, in Hormozgan province, which the Guard attributed to "enemy elements."
The statement described the strike as a serious warning to the United States to stop violating Iranian airspace and halt oil smuggling through the Strait of Hormuz. It said Iran stood ready to respond again if such violations continued.
The Revolutionary Guard also warned that companies acting at Washington's direction and involved in the violations would face harsher sanctions.
Neither the US military nor Bahrain had commented on the strike as of this report.
Iran's state news agency IRNA had earlier reported overnight that enemy elements struck the city of Sirik.