Conflict in the Middle East | US military announces bombing of sites in Iran

(Washington) The American army announced on Friday that it had bombed, in “self-defense”, radar sites in Iran after having shot down four Iranian drones which, according to Washington, threatened civilian maritime traffic in the region.

US forces “downed four drones […] launched towards the Strait of Hormuz,” which “represented an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,” wrote the US Middle East Military Command (Centcom) on X.

“US forces then struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and Qeshm Island to defend against further attacks,” Centcom added.

“American forces remain vigilant and ready to respond, in self-defense, to any unjustified aggression by Iran,” he continued.

Explosions were heard by journalists in Sirik, a town neighboring Goruk, Iranian state television Irib reported on Telegram.

In Kuwait, the army announced at dawn on Saturday that it was facing a “hostile” missile and drone attack, three days after an attack on its airport blamed on Iran.

An air alert was triggered on Saturday in Bahrain, the Gulf country’s Interior Ministry announced, after new American strikes in Iran and while Kuwait said it was attacked by missiles and drones.

“The siren sounded. Citizens and residents are invited to keep calm and go to the nearest safe place,” the ministry wrote on the social network X.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced on Saturday that they had attacked “enemy bases” in the region, after American bombings on radar installations in Iran.

In a statement relayed by state television Irib, Iran’s ideological army said that “enemy bases in the region were hit by aerial missiles.”

Despite the ceasefire theoretically in force, the United States already carried out ground strikes in Iran at the beginning of the week following what was described by Washington as Iranian attacks.

The island of Qeshm had already been struck on Tuesday by the American army.

Iran said earlier Friday it had fired “warning missiles” against two US ships in the Arabian Sea, but Washington denied this.