The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced wreaking destruction on several key US military targets across Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman in a five-phase retaliatory operation against American aggression, including attacks targeting Iranian coastal areas.
The IRGC issued a series of back-to-back statements Monday, detailing the operations that followed up its initial response against US aggression. The Iranian Army also confirmed that its integrated air defense network intercepted and destroyed an enemy drone in the southern port city.
According to the Army’s Public Relations Office, a hostile “Lucas” drone belonging to the aggressor enemy was tracked and successfully engaged by a surface-to-air missile system operated by the Air Defense Force in Bandar Abbas. The drone was shot down under the country’s integrated air defense network, the Army confirmed.
Phase One: Jordan’s Prince Hassan Air Base engulfed in flames
The IRGC’s first communiqué announced that late Sunday night, following a US-encouraged incident involving two violating vessels that had endangered maritime navigation in the Strait of Hormuz by switching off their transponders, the US military once again revealed its savage nature by attacking Iranian coastal bases.
In response, the IRGC said: “The honorable warriors of Islam set several large missile depots and fuel storage tanks at Jordan’s Prince Hassan Air Base ablaze with missile and drone strikes.”
Phase Two: US drone command center in Bahrain smashed
In the second phase, the IRGC’s Aerospace Force struck the US military’s drone command and control center at Bahrain’s Sheikh Isa Airbase.
The statement said: “The criminal, warmongering US regime, which since its founding has spent very little time free from war and military aggression, has failed to learn any lessons from its recent defeats” at the hands of the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces.
The IRGC added that its forces also destroyed “key helicopter maintenance and repair facilities” and “the hangar housing a P-8 electronic warfare aircraft” at the same base.
Phase Three and Four: Patriot systems, strategic radars, missile base destroyed in Kuwait
In a subsequent statement, the IRGC announced the “complete destruction” of fuel storage tanks and a Patriot air defense system at the Ali al-Salem Airbase in Kuwait, as well as an FPS strategic radar system at the Ahmad al-Jaber Airbase in the country.
The IRGC’s Ground Force carried out the fourth phase of retaliation, targeting a US Army surface-to-surface missile base in Kuwait.
“They set two HIMARS missile launchers and ammunition bunkers filled with missiles ablaze, completely destroying them,” the statement read.
Phase Five: US infrastructure in Bahrain, radar systems in Oman destroyed
In the fifth phase, the IRGC Navy targeted the Naval Support Activity, a US base in Bahrain’s Juffair district, “where towering flames are now rising,” the IRGC said. The force also “struck and destroyed an FPS long-range air surveillance radar and a maritime surveillance radar in the Sultanate of Oman with powerful missile and drone attacks.” . ‘US military driven into desperation’
The IRGC emphasized that its retaliation “has driven the child-killing US military into desperation,” pointing to American troops’ targeting of an agricultural water pump in Mahshahr County in southern Iran on Sunday as evidence of their anti-popular nature.
The IRGC further warned: “The only way for the Strait of Hormuz to remain open for maritime traffic is the complete cessation of illegal US military interventions in the strait and full respect for the sovereignty of coastal nations over their territorial waters. Continued interference will lead to even greater incidents in the global oil and gas sector.”
In its statements, the IRGC reemphasized Iran’s sovereignty over the strategic waterway, stating: “The Strait of Hormuz is our territory, and we will not allow a rogue, child-killing army from the other side of the world to continue its illegal interference there.”
The IRGC also noted that the closure of the strait in response to American aggression would be lifted only when “the intervention of the aggressive US military in the strait comes to an end and the sovereignty of countries over their own coastal waters is respected.”
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 wholesale American-Israeli aggression against Iran.
The violations continued even after Washington and Tehran signed a Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding, whose first clause clearly mandates cessation of aggression on all fronts.
Iran’s Armed Forces have staged uncompromising retaliation in the face of each instance, including those taking place in support of illegal vessel movement in the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC confirmed that retaliatory operations are ongoing, with additional results to be announced in subsequent communiqués.
“And victory comes only from Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise,” the IRGC statement said, citing a Qur’anic verse.
I think it’s always important to keep in mind the specific mindset of the liberal Iranian ruling class, because it explains a lot of this behavior
Has this attitude changed a little since the late 90’s with the developments that have unfolded since?
If anything, before 2023 it got worse, with American social media turbocharging American propaganda and frying half the planet’s brains
Tho the genocide and War on Iran have definitely collapsed the floor from out under the old narratives the Iranian elite tell themselves, but it takes time for people get over the cognitive dissonance and reform their ideological priors
It almost seems like the EU plans to cutoff the youth from US social media will have some benefits in that the America worship might be slightly less. I kind of wish we had it because we rely too much on their social media and it’s had awful consequences.
this is a broad society wide iranian issue. everyone thinks like this and the state has almost no control over culture so it doesn’t go away. on top of that this is also why when they do import something from china or india they import the stuff with the lowest quality possible because “people only buy chinese stuff because it’s cheap not for the quality”.