Iran-US War Latest: Iran Attacks US Bases Across Three Gulf Allies after Trump Renews Strikes on Tehran
By Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
US military says nearly all drones fired towards Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain have been intercepted
Iran has fired at least four ballistic missiles and several drones at US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan in retaliation against Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on Tehran.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said its Aerospace Force launched long-range missiles at an airbase in Jordan, which hosts US military personnel. The Guard said the attack damaged critical command centres and F-35 fighter jet hangars.
The Kuwaiti army said its air defence systems were “intercepting hostile aerial targets”, while Bahrain, for the second time on Wednesday morning, sounded air raid sirens.
The escalation comes after Donald Trump’s military launched retaliatory strikes against Iran, hitting its air defence infrastructure, after the US president accused the country of shooting down an American helicopter.
Trump had warned earlier that the US “must, of necessity, respond” to the downing of an Apache helicopter that was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz. Two US pilots were rescued, uninjured, from the vital waterway after the $40m gunship went down, US officials said.
US Central Command announced the “self-defence strikes” were “a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression”.
