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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on July 17 that it had carried out a coordinated set of attacks on military facilities belonging to the United States in Syria, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, describing the operation as the 13th wave of its retaliatory campaign against American forces in the region.
In a statement on the Syria strike, the IRGC’s public relations department said its Aerospace Force had destroyed a radar system and several special operations helicopters at al-Tanf garrison, adding that a large number of American troops had been killed in the strike.
The Guards linked the operation to the deaths of seven Iranian soldiers killed on July 15 in a U.S. strike on the Army’s 388th Brigade garrison in Bampur, near the southeastern city of Iranshahr.
It said Iranian forces remained in full control of the Strait of Hormuz, and warned that no oil or gas exports from the region would resume for as long as the U.S. continued what it called its acts of aggression.
In a separate statement on the Kuwait strikes, the IRGC said its forces had hit a missile-defense surveillance radar, several weapons depots, two HIMARS launchers and a stock of missiles, sparking a large fire at a base hosting U.S. forces.
The statement accused Washington of resuming hostilities in the middle of negotiations, alleging that U.S. forces, out of desperation, had turned to strikes on civilian infrastructure — including telecommunications and rail facilities as well as passing vehicles — killing and wounding civilians in the process.
It said these actions had caused a sharp drop in production and a full halt to oil and gas exports through the Strait of Hormuz, and warned that Iran’s retaliatory operations were continuing.
In a further statement, the IRGC said its forces had also destroyed a naval surveillance radar on Oman’s Salmah Plateau and a U.S. air-surveillance radar in the Ghanam area of the country.
In its final statement of the day, carried by Iran’s state news agency IRNA, the Guards said it had targeted the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, one of the largest U.S. military installations in the Middle East and the forward headquarters of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).
Separately, Iran’s Army announced the completion of the twelfth phase of what it calls Operation Saeqeh, or Lightning, saying the latest phase used combat drones against U.S. military bases and facilities in Kuwait.
The Army’s public relations office said Arash loitering drones had struck positions used by U.S. forces as well as logistical support centers, describing the operation as retaliation for what it called the enemy’s crimes and in memory of Iranian soldiers killed in the conflict.
It stressed that its forces remained fully prepared to confront any further threat, and expressed confidence that Iran would ultimately prevail against what it called a malicious and deceitful enemy.
Kuwait, Oman and Qatar all confirmed coming under attack overnight. Only Syria denied being targeted by the Islamic Republic.
Overnight, the U.S. renewed strikes on military positions and civilian infrastructure across southern Iran, causing casualties.
According to the Hormozgan Governorate, continued overnight American strikes hit at least six bridges. The targeted infrastructure included the Geriveh Bridge on the Bandar Abbas–Khamir–Lar route; the bridge near Latidan on the return route between Bandar Abbas, Khamir, and Lar; two bridges on the Kahourestan–Lar road; an unfinished bridge on the Bandar Khamir–Keshar–Bandar Abbas route; and the Marou village bridge in Khamir County.
Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences said the death toll from the attacks on the Bandar Khamir bridges has risen to seven, while nine others were injured and remain under medical treatment.
In another strike on a residential neighborhood in the port city of Bandar Abbas, at least one civilian was killed and eight others were injured.
The U.S. also struck the city’s railway junction, injuring two people. Explosions were also reported near Bandar Abbas Airport, with at least one projectile hitting the facility.
American strikes additionally targeted Iranshahr Airport in southeastern Iran, where three explosions were heard around the airport. The attacks injured at least one person and damaged the airport’s power infrastructure and fuel storage facilities.
CENTCOM ignored all of this, claiming in a statement that the strikes hit coastal surveillance and air defense sites, military logistics infrastructure, and maritime capabilities. The command said that the latest wave of strikes was carried out to further degrade Iranian military capabilities and to hold the Islamic Republic accountable for recent attacks on commercial shipping.
The latest clash was the most extensive since the start of the limited confrontation between the U.S. and Iran ten days earlier. The confrontation has put the memorandum of understanding signed by the two sides last month to end the war on the brink of collapse.
American strikes on infrastructure in Iran are guaranteed to cause more escalation if continued. Iran has already demonstrated its willingness to expand the ring of fire by targeting Syria.
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why aren’t pentagon ufo file videos this high resolution?
target israel please, thanks.
like the clown 🤡 in chief centcom keeps repeating their bs of “degrading” irans military capabilities.
iran is engaged in a tit for tat strategy that needs to be bumped up to go after qatari, uae and kuwaiti owners. why are their gov building still standing, while iran is targeted everywhere? have any of those leaders been targeted? why not? their palaces should be smoldering. sharaa says nothing to see here. soon, he will be right. he still masses forces on lebanon border and intercepting iranian shipments. still waiting for him to kick out israel…lol.
this is just how uncle sam tried to bomb vietnam back to the stone age, they dropped 9 million tons of bombs, more than all that was dropped in world war ii. but it didn’t work. and uncle sam suffered a humiliating defeat. he’s stuck on stupid.
“it said iranian forces remained in full control of the strait of hormuz, and warned that no oil or gas exports from the region would resume for as long as the u.s. continued what it called its acts of aggression.”
read that again. “what it called its acts of agression.”
in other words, it’s not really agression, the irgc just calls it that.
thanks for your subtle pro western propaganda southfront. not!