Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed responsibility for a missile and drone attack targeting the United States Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain. The group described the operation as a retaliatory mission. According to an IRGC statement, the strike caused a fire at a fuel storage facility within the base.

The statement further alleged that the attack destroyed a US Patriot missile defense radar, the fleet’s air control radar, a C-RAM early warning system, and a control and monitoring center for unmanned surface vessels. The IRGC declared that its retaliatory military operations would continue in the future.

The authenticity of Iran’s claims has not yet been independently verified. Neither the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) nor the Bahraini government has issued any official comment on the incident so far.