Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced they targeted U.S. combat aircraft at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain and a U.S. naval fuel-support pier at Al Ahmadi Port in Kuwait, state media reported. These claims come as U.S. forces conducted their seventh consecutive night of strikes against Iranian targets. The U.S. Central Command stated these strikes hit "surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities."
Kuwait reported intercepting Iranian missiles and drones on Saturday, and Iraq stated it shot down attack drones over Irbil. Jordan's air defense systems also downed Iranian missiles, according to the Petra news agency. Air sirens were heard in Bahrain.
Iranian officials reported that recent U.S. strikes have resulted in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries, with new casualties reported Friday. The U.S. military also acknowledged an increase in injured service members. U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. was "winning big in Iran" and that "you will see the fruits of that labour very, very shortly."
Several bridges were reportedly destroyed in the airstrikes, with at least seven people killed. U.S. missile attacks also struck the city of Bandar Khamir on the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command indicated it hit dozens of targets in its latest bombardments. The strikes also appeared to have caused the collapse of a tower at Iran's Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman.
Chabahar port, which has been operating with support from India, has been a repeated target of American airstrikes. Iranian state media acknowledged a third round of strikes on the facility without immediately confirming the tower's collapse. Iran has warned it will return to "full-scale war" if U.S. strikes continue for another two or three days.
Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a senior military advisor to Iran's supreme leader, stated, "Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses...and no political border will be safe."
Iran's energy sector has been impacted, with Tehran asking citizens to conserve electricity due to strain on the power grid caused by U.S. strikes on electricity supply facilities. Temperatures in the capital were expected to reach triple digits. In Kuwait, an Iranian attack reportedly damaged a power and water plant, prompting calls for electricity rationing. The Kuwaiti military reported several wounded troops when Iranian drones targeted bases and camps.
Iran's Guards claimed to have attacked two U.S. radar sites in Oman and the Al-Tanf military base in Syria, though a Syrian military source denied an attack and U.S. forces stated they had withdrawn from Al-Tanf earlier in the year.
In Bahrain, Tehran reportedly targeted U.S. helicopters and planes at an airbase, with the island nation urging citizens to take shelter. In Iraq's Kurdistan region, drone and rocket strikes on Friday killed nine members of an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group, an attack blamed on Iran by the exiled Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan.
Iran's health ministry reported at least 38 people killed and over 400 wounded in the country since fighting resumed. Mediators are attempting to facilitate negotiations, and China and Pakistan have called for a cessation of hostilities and a resumption of talks between the United States and Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for approximately one-fifth of global oil, remains a central point of conflict. Iran has sought to assert control over the waterway, opening fire on ships after the U.S. reimposed its blockade. Anti-U.S. sentiment is visible in Tehran, with billboards depicting President Trump and his family above U.S. flag-draped coffins appearing in Palestine Square.
