In response to the renewed US attacks, Iran’s armed forces said they once again attacked targets in the Gulf states of Bahrain and Kuwait. The aviation authorities in Kuwait therefore closed the airspace to civil aviation early in the morning. The army said air defense was in action.
The sirens also blared in Bahrain, as the Interior Ministry announced. Residents were urged to remain calm and find the nearest safe place.
In Bahrain, the US Navy’s regional headquarters was attacked with kamikaze drones, the Iranian army said in a statement carried by state radio. The target was therefore anti-aircraft systems. Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, the country’s elite military force, said it attacked a US air base in Bahrain and two bases in Kuwait. A total of 18 targets were attacked, it said.
There are important US bases in the two Gulf states, which are only a few hundred kilometers from Iran. They have recently been the target of Iranian missile and drone fire on several occasions.
Trump: “They’re going to bomb them into the ground”
According to a media report, US President Donald Trump accused Tehran of a particularly serious breach of the current ceasefire. It was “the most frequently broken ceasefire in the history of the world,” a reporter from the US broadcaster Fox News quoted from a conversation with the president. It remained unclear which incident Trump was specifically referring to with this accusation.
Trump has promised an end to the bombings soon, Fox News reporter Trey Yingst reported on the
Iran bans ships from passing through Strait of Hormuz
Officially, the Iranian military headquarters justified the alleged complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz with a “changed security situation” after the renewed US attacks. All ships are prohibited from passing through the strait. This also applies to oil tankers and freighters, it was said.
Shortly after the war began at the end of February, the Islamic Republic largely brought traffic in the strait to a standstill through threats and attacks on ships. Tehran recently emphasized that the Strait of Hormuz was not blocked. In practice, however, shipping companies had to coordinate with Iranian contact points and were then only allowed to pass through a corridor near the Iranian coast. Iran charges high fees for this. According to Tehran, several ships had recently passed through the strait.
