Iran's IRGC says six drones targeted a US air defense radar at Bahrain's Al-Rifaa helicopter base. Bahrain says its air defenses intercepted multiple attacks; the US has not confirmed the incident.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it attacked a US military base in Bahrain in retaliation for what it described as "hostile US actions," according to Iran's Fars news agency. State-run Press TV reported that six Revolutionary Guard drones targeted US air defense radar at the Al-Rifaa helicopter base. Neither US nor Bahraini authorities immediately confirmed the attack or reported any damage.
Bahrain issued two warnings of potential security threats on Sunday, its first such alerts since September. Bahrain's air defence systems intercepted and destroyed multiple Iranian aerial attacks, according to The Independent. Military officials in Bahrain said incoming strikes were neutralised before reaching their targets, accusing Tehran of continuing its "systematic hostile approach" towards the kingdom. Bahrain, which hosts the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, urged residents to remain calm and move to the nearest safe location, according to the Interior Ministry.
The latest claim follows another reported Iranian strike against US military infrastructure in Bahrain two days earlier. The Revolutionary Guards said they had targeted an American early-warning radar, but the US military rejected that account, saying its forces intercepted two Iranian drones and that no damage had occurred.
Diplomatic efforts to end the almost nine-month conflict have yet to produce a breakthrough. The war began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 and subsequently spread across the region, with Tehran launching missile and drone attacks on US military bases in Gulf countries. President Donald Trump has said in recent days that he might hold off from attacking Iran if the US faces no new provocations from Tehran or the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, but that he would maintain a US naval blockade, Reuters reported on Saturday.
On another front, the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition fighting them have continued to exchange attacks. The coalition said Sunday that Saudi air defenses intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles heading toward the capital, Riyadh, along with three drones targeting the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province.
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