Iran launched a significant attack targeting a United States (US) airbase in Bahrain, according to an announcement made by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Tuesday, March 3rd. This critical information was subsequently disseminated by Iran’s official news agency, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
The IRGC, often referred to as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, stands as the nation’s most dominant military and political force, wielding extensive influence across various sectors. In a statement posted on Telegram, and subsequently quoted by AFP, IRNA detailed the assault: “The IRGC announced that its naval forces carried out a large-scale drone and missile attack at dawn on the US airbase in the Sheikh Isa region, Bahrain.”
Further elaborating on the offensive, the news agency specified that a total of 20 drones and three missiles were launched during the attack on Bahrain. The IRGC controversially claimed that the main command center at the US airbase was utterly destroyed. However, the elite force offered no substantiating evidence to support this assertion.
This latest Iranian assault was explicitly framed as a direct retaliation for a joint Israel-US attack on Iran just last weekend. That audacious joint operation by US and Israeli forces tragically resulted in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a profound loss that has significantly inflamed tensions and triggered widespread escalation across the strategically vital Gulf region.