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Iran reports drone and missile attacks on U.S. bases in Middle East

From Die Zeit · () German

Translated from German, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Iran's Revolutionary Guard reported launching drone and missile attacks on U.S. targets in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Jordan.
  • The U.S. military stated it attacked targets on Qeshm Island and near Bandar Abbas, with Iranian reports claiming at least eight deaths.
  • The exchange of attacks escalates regional tensions, with Iran claiming to have hit a Syrian military base previously used by the U.S.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed responsibility for drone and missile strikes against U.S. military targets in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Jordan overnight. State television reported that the Guard also attacked the al-Tanf military base in Syria, which had been under Syrian army control since February.

Eyewitnesses in Doha, Qatar, reported hearing explosions, and the Interior Ministry stated a child was injured by shrapnel. Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced it had struck targets on Qeshm Island, near the port city of Bandar Abbas, and other key facilities belonging to the Navy and the Revolutionary Guard.

We are pleased to report that the Centre has destroyed over 16,000 obsolete, decommissioned and unserviceable weapons since its inception.

— Johnson Babatunde KokumoDirector-General of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) disclosed the number of destroyed weapons.

Iranian state media reported at least eight people were killed in the U.S. strikes. The semi-official Tasnim news agency reported one civilian killed near Chabahar, while the official IRNA news agency cited seven deaths from attacks on bridges in Bandar Khamir. The Wall Street Journal, citing a U.S. official, reported the bridge strikes aimed to disrupt supply routes to an Iranian naval base near the Strait of Hormuz.

We are pleased to report that the Centre has destroyed over 16,000 obsolete, decommissioned and unserviceable weapons since its inception.

— Johnson Babatunde KokumoDirector-General of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) disclosed the number of destroyed weapons.
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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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