Iran strikes Gulf infrastructure, threatens wider offensive

Iran struck critical infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain on Wednesday, escalating regional tensions and threatening a "full-scale offensive" if U.S. strikes on the Islamic republic continue. The attacks followed seven consecutive nights of U.S. strikes on Iran.

Kuwait reported that an oil facility and a power and water plant were targeted, causing injuries and damage. The power plant attack forced the deactivation of several generation units. This was the second attack on a Kuwaiti power and water plant in as many days.

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Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses... and no political border will be safe.

In Bahrain, the army stated that air defenses repelled a wave of Iranian attacks, which targeted aircraft shelters, fuel storage tanks, and bridges at the U.S. military's Sheikh Isa Air Base. Jordan also reported that its Al-Azraq base was targeted by Iranian drones, though the army said it shot down 10 missiles without casualties or damage.

Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a senior military adviser to Iran's supreme leader, warned that Tehran would no longer limit its responses and that "no political border will be safe." He added that Iran would resume "full-scale offensive operations" if U.S. strikes persist for another two or three days. Iranian state news agency IRNA reported that U.S. attacks had killed three people and wounded eight in the southern province of Hormozgan, also knocking out 116 telecommunications towers.

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full-scale offensive operations