Bahrain issues first threat alerts since September as Iran says it attacked US base
Bahrain issued two alerts of potential threats on Sunday, its first such warnings since September, as Iran said it had attacked a US base in the Gulf country amid uncertainty over a US-Iran deal aimed at ending the nearly nine-month-old war. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had attacked a US military base in Bahrain in retaliation for “hostile US actions,” Iran’s Fars news agency reported. The Revolutionary Guards said they had launched six drones targeting a US air-defense radar at the Al-Rifaa helicopter base in Bahrain, Iranian state-run Press TV reported.
There was no immediate confirmation from US or Bahraini authorities. Bahrain issued two alerts of potential threats on Sunday as Iran said it had attacked a US base in the Gulf country. Preju – stock.adobe.com Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, urged citizens and residents to remain calm and proceed to the nearest safe location, the interior ministry said. Explore More American tourists drown after strong current pulls them out to sea in island paradise Russia lifts ban on killing Zelensky and decapitating Ukraine’s leadership: reports Husband, who pushed pregnant wife off cliff, released from prison 6 years into life sentence It did not provide further details on the threats.
Two days earlier the Revolutionary Guards said they had attacked a US early-warning radar in Bahrain. The US military denied this, saying it had intercepted two Iranian drones without any damage. Diplomatic efforts to end the conflict have yet to produce a breakthrough, though Washington and Tehran have held off on direct attacks in the war that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28 and then spread across the region, with Tehran launching missile and drone attacks on US bases in Gulf countries.
Left out here: Leaves out what changes the picture
The article reports the Revolutionary Guards' attack claim of two days earlier and the US denial. It does not say that Iran called that strike retaliation for an air attack on a telecommunications tower in its Hormozgan province. Reuters reported this on 13 November. Without it, the US denial closes the passage and a reader sees no specific act Iran said it was answering. The article does say Iran described Sunday's attack as retaliation for "hostile US actions", so the gap is small.
How we know
- Al-Monitor reported“Iran had said its strike was in retaliation for what it described as an air attack on a telecommunications tower in its Hormozgan province”US denies Iran's claim that it attacked early-warning radar in Bahrain (opens in a new tab)
- New York Post wrote earlier“Mutual attacks continue, with the US striking Iran’s Qeshm island overnight, according to Iranian state media”Trump, Vance set to meet with Iran negotiations mediator in DC (opens in a new tab)
President Trump has said in recent days that he might hold off on attacking Iran if the US faces no new provocations from Tehran or the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, but that he would maintain a US naval blockade, Reuters reported on Saturday. On another front, however, the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition fighting them have continued to exchange attacks, with the coalition saying on Sunday it had intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles launched towards the Saudi capital Riyadh and three drones in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province.
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