Iran says six drones struck US radar site at Bahrain air base after Sirik tower attack
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it launched six drones at a US radar installation on an air base in Bahrain, describing the operation as retaliation for a US strike on a telecom tower in Sirik. Al Jazeera English reported the claim as a targeted attack on American military radar rather than a general assault on Bahraini civilian sites, with the IRGC presenting the six drones as a direct response to the Sirik tower strike.
Arab states condemned the attack. Authorities in Bahrain warned residents to seek shelter, a sign that officials treated the incident as an immediate security threat on the ground even as the stated target was a US radar facility. The sequence in the reporting is clear: a US strike on a telecom tower in Sirik, then the IRGC’s account of six drones launched at the radar site in Bahrain, then regional condemnation and public shelter warnings.
The point of the story is that Iran says it has struck a US military radar presence in Bahrain with a six-drone raid, tying that action to Sirik and prompting both Arab diplomatic protest and civilian alert measures in Bahrain. No independent confirmation of damage, casualties, or the precise base is given in the available account; what is stated is the IRGC’s claim, the retaliatory rationale, the condemnation from Arab states, and the warning for people in Bahrain to take shelter.
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