The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for strikes on the Gulf States on Thursday morning, claiming to target two US military bases in Bahrain and another two in Kuwait.
Sirens sounded for the second time in Bahrain on Thursday, the Bahraini Interior Ministry announced. The Bahrain News Agency, Bahrain's state media, attributed the sirens to Iranian missiles.
Bahrain's Defense Force confirmed the attacks on Thursday, stating that its forces had intercepted and destroyed several Iranian missile and drone assaults aimed at the kingdom earlier in the day.
Sirens sounded overnight in Kuwait
Sirens also sounded in Kuwait, where the Defense Ministry reported that the country's air defenses "are confronting rocket and drone attacks."
The Official Spokesman for Kuwait's Ministry of Defense, Major General Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, issued a statement on Thursday about the overnight attack, reporting one person injured due to falling debris.
The statement detailed that a total of three ballistic missiles, one cruise missile, and ten hostile drones were detected within Kuwaiti airspace. All of these threats were successfully intercepted the statement said.
At the same time, Reuters reported that an elevated security warning was sent to mobile phones in Qatar. An all clear was sent out within 10 minutes, noting that "a threat had been eliminated."
IRGC claims responsibility for the strikes
Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf claimed the strikes on the Gulf states were in response to American attacks on southern Iran earlier on Thursday.
"America still hasn’t learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free. Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you’ll get hit," he said in a post on X.
"Don’t flail around pointlessly, or you’ll sink even deeper: the Strait of Hormuz will only open with 'Iranian arrangements,' not American threats," Ghalibaf added.