Times of Israel, on Iran, 13 November 2026

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IRGC says it targeted US early-warning radar in Bahrain after 'enemy attack' on telecom tower

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IRGC says it targeted US early-warning radar in Bahrain after ‘enemy attack’ on telecom tower

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it targeted a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, the first such claim of an attack on American military assets in a Gulf country since early September.

The IRGC says the strike was in retaliation for what it described as an air attack on a telecommunications tower in Iran’s southern Sirik county, in Hormozgan province, according to Iranian state media.

The claim comes amid a fragile lull in the conflict between Iran and the US, which began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 and has since spread across the region.

Iran launched missile and drone attacks on US bases in Gulf states and sought to restrict shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global oil and gas supplies. Washington, in turn, imposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports.

There is no immediate comment from the US or Bahrain.

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About this analysis

The Times of Israel reports the IRGC's claim that it targeted a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, attributing the claim and the reported attack on a telecom tower in Sirik to the IRGC and Iranian state media. It states that the war began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 and notes that the US and Bahrain had not commented. Nothing in it misleads the reader.

What it gets right

  • “which began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28”

    The Times of Israel names who started the war and when, so the reader does not take Iran's later attacks as the opening act.

  • “what it described as an air attack on a telecommunications tower in Iran’s southern Sirik county”

    The outlet keeps the IRGC's account of the Sirik attack as the IRGC's claim and names its source, Iranian state media, without either adopting or dismissing it.

  • “There is no immediate comment from the US or Bahrain.”

    The article tells the reader that the other parties had not yet responded, rather than leaving the claim to stand as uncontested or inventing a denial.

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