IRGC launches missile strikes on US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, airbase in Jordan
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has struck multiple US military facilities in Bahrain, including the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet, as well as American targets in Jordan with missiles in follow-up retaliation against continued American violations.
The Corps announced the latest stages of its reprisal in three consecutive statements on Tuesday.
The first statement reported retaliatory strikes by the IRGC Navy against several weapons support depots, a satellite communications center, accommodation used by US troops, and several military radar systems in Bahrain. The strikes, it added, “destroyed” the targets.
In a subsequent statement, the Corps said its Aerospace Force had conducted “coordinated missile and drone strikes” against the US Fifth Fleet’s headquarters, setting its fuel storage facilities “ablaze.”
“They also struck and destroyed a Patriot radar system, the Fifth Fleet's air-control radar, and a C-RAM early warning radar system."
Ballistic missile strikes hit Jordan-based targets
And yet another statement reported “ballistic missile” strikes by the Aerospace Force against “a key facility and the location where the American enemy was stationed at an airbase” in Jordan.
“This base had been used to launch attacks against us, and the American criminals have now been made to pay for their actions,” the Corps said, noting that the same outpost was used back in February to launch a massacre against a school in southern Iran.
The IRGC, meanwhile, underlined that its reprisal is, by no means, directed against the Jordanian nation.
The United States has perpetrated numerous violations against Iranian territory since April 7, when US President Donald Trump announced a unilateral ceasefire in the latest bout of American-Israeli aggression targeting the Islamic Republic.
The violations continued even after Washington and Tehran signed a Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding last month, whose first clause clearly mandates cessation of aggression on all fronts.
The US has also been trying to help vessels evade the maritime route designated by the Islamic Republic for safe and legal passage through the Strait of Hormuz by seeking to escort trespassing vessels through an illegal passageway.
Iran's Armed Forces have staged uncompromising retaliation in the face of each instance of violation, including those in support of illegal vessel movement in the Strait of Hormuz.
Earlier this month, the Islamic Republic scaled up its retaliation strategy in response to the violations, pledging to strike enemy targets at a ratio of at least two to one, meaning that for every Iranian target hit, at least two enemy targets will be struck in return.