US President Donald Trump threatened to escalate further tensions in the war and after this the US launched fresh attacks on Iran overnight.
Let us tell you that Trump had told on Thursday that he is considering a “very big attack” on the Islamic Republic, which will be “bigger than all the attacks so far”. Just hours after the President’s warning, military attacks took place for the 13th consecutive night.
On the other hand, sirens sounded twice in Bahrain on Friday, at the same time as Iran claimed responsibility for attacks on US targets in several Arab countries.
According to the semi-government agency Tasnim, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted three “ammunition and equipment storage sites” at Kuwait’s Al-Adairi base. Tasnim also reported that the IRGC also targeted the control tower of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
Earlier on Friday, according to Iran’s Press TV, Tehran sent drones towards Bahrain’s Sheikh Isa Air Base and Jordan’s Al-Azraq Air Base. Just a day earlier, Kuwait’s air defense system had also intercepted a wave of missile and drone attacks from Iran, according to the Kuwaiti military.
Trump said Thursday that Iran and the Houthi rebels would face major military punishment after Yemen’s rebels attacked two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea. These rebels had talked about a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia a few days ago.
“If they do it again, the United States will hold Iran responsible because the Houthi rebels are Iran’s proxies,” Trump wrote in a post on ‘Truth Social’.
He later also said that “the US will use Iranian assets that it has to compensate for the damage caused to the ships, cargo or anything related to them.” This has been strongly objected to by Tehran.