'Region will become hell': Iran launches retaliatory strikes on 18 US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain
Image credit: AP US denies strikes on warship, Hormuz closure Iran accuses US of 'calculated war crime' Iran says US halted strikes due to 'strong
Image credit: AP US denies strikes on warship, Hormuz closure Iran accuses US of 'calculated war crime' Iran says US halted strikes due to 'strong response' IRGC commander warns of 'turning the region into hell' Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its forces carried out two waves of operations targeting 18 "important" US military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain, as Tehran vowed a "decisive military response" to American aggression.According to reports by Iran International, the strikes targeted the Ali Al-Salem and Ahmed Al-Jaber air bases in Kuwait, and Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain. The IRGC said its Aerospace Force and Navy carried out the operations in response to US attacks on Iranian positions in southern Iran, including areas near Bandar Abbas.US Central Command pushed back against Iranian claims, stating that no US warships have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz and that commercial ships continue to transit in and out of the waterway.CENTCOM also announced that it began launching additional self-defense strikes against multiple targets in Iran at 5:15 pm ET, at the direction of President Donald Trump, in response to what it described as Iran's "unwarranted and continued aggression."Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei accused the US military of "deliberately" attacking civilian water infrastructure in Sirik, a port town in Iran's southern Hormozgan province.He said the attack destroyed two reservoirs that supplied drinking water to more than 20,000 residents across 10 villages."This is not collateral damage – it is a calculated war crime and a flagrant violation of human rights and international humanitarian law," Baghaei wrote. "The US must be held accountable for committing such systematic brutal attacks on civilian life-sustaining infrastructure."Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters claimed that the United States stopped attacks on areas in southern Iran due to a "strong and decisive response" by Iran's armed forces. The command added that Iran's military response to US "aggression and provocations" will continue.An IRGC-affiliated source told Tasnim that Iran will respond with a "decisive military response" to US military actions and will never "submit to threats or military folly."IRGC Aerospace Force commander Brigadier General Majid Mousavi warned that Iran would respond across the region if the Strait of Hormuz is destabilized."We will bring the region into hell for you from across Iran if you make the sacred Strait of Hormuz unsafe," he was quoted as saying.
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