The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced a new series of retaliatory strikes against US military facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan, targeting key logistics, command, and military infrastructure following renewed US attacks on Iranian territory.
The Corps announced the fresh reprisal in three separate statements on Wednesday, saying the strikes formed the fourth, fifth, and sixth waves of its Operation Nasr- (Victory) 2.
Fourth wave targets US logistics center in Kuwait
In the first statement in the series, the IRGC denounced the United States for attacking “a number of coastal bases and locations in Iran's southern provinces with cruise missiles and aerial bombs” overnight.
It noted that the American aggression had come after “no vessel dared violate regulations or cooperate with the United States” due to Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz in response to unprovoked American attacks and violations.
The statement said the US attacks were intended “to conceal its defeat and incapability,” hailing that the Corps’ forces "responded with crushing blows, punishing and suppressing the aggressors."
According to the IRGC, the fourth wave of Operation Nasr 2 targeted “KJL,” which it described as, “the US army's principal logistics and support center in West Asia at Mina Abdullah, Kuwait.”
The statement said the facility “was set ablaze and destroyed” as a result of the strikes.
The IRGC added, “The retaliatory operations of our fighters will continue, and the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States ends its acts of aggression.”
Fifth wave focuses on US facilities in Bahrain
In the next statement in the series, the IRGC said the fifth wave of Operation Nasr 2 was launched at dawn by the Corps’ Navy, hitting “the NSI Management Center, the Command and Control Center, major warehouses containing military parts and equipment, and fuel depots belonging to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.”
The IRGC likewise stated that those facilities too “were struck and destroyed.”
The statement, meanwhile, condemned the United States for deploying naval forces across the Indian Ocean "under the claim of controlling the Strait of Hormuz, blocking oceanic routes to shipping and depriving the world of the region's oil and gas."
“The enemy should know that since its sea pirates have blocked the Indian Ocean route for the export of oil and gas to the world,” under the pretext of blockading the strait, “it must now expect the closure of other oil and gas export routes that serve the interests of the United States and its allies,” it went on.
“The region's oil and gas exports will be available either to everyone or to no one.”
Sixth wave of strikes targets al-Azraq Airbase in Jordan
In another statement, the IRGC said the sixth wave of the operation targeted the US base at al-Azraq in Jordan.
The Corps said the strikes were carried out by its Aerospace Force, which targeted shelters housing US F-15, F-16, and F-35 warplanes at the outpost and “eliminated a number of US MQ-9 strategic drones stationed at the base,” destroying the shelters and the unmanned aircraft.
The United States has perpetrated numerous violations against Iranian territory since April 7, when US President Donald Trump announced a unilateral ceasefire in the latest bout of American-Israeli aggression targeting the Islamic Republic.
The violations continued even after Washington and Tehran signed a Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding last month, whose first clause clearly mandates cessation of aggression on all fronts.
The US has also been trying to help vessels evade the maritime route designated by the Islamic Republic for safe and legal passage through the Strait of Hormuz by seeking to escort trespassing vessels through an illegal passageway.
Iran's Armed Forces have staged uncompromising retaliation in the face of each instance of violation, including those in support of illegal vessel movement in the Strait of Hormuz.
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