Iran says it targeted US radar site in Bahrain

What the report says

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it struck a US early-warning radar site in Bahrain, describing the move as retaliation for what it called an air attack on a telecommunications tower in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province. The claim was reported by Al Jazeera on November 13, 2026, and followed Iranian state media accounts that said the city of Sirik in Hormozgan had been hit by “enemy fire.”

According to the IRGC statement carried by semi-official Iranian outlets, the strike was intended as a warning to what it called an “aggressor enemy” and a response to repeated aerial pressure and alleged oil-smuggling activity in the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency said the aerospace force had destroyed the radar installation. There was no immediate response from the US or Bahrain.

The report noted that Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, making the island kingdom a sensitive location in any wider regional confrontation. Reuters, as cited by Al Jazeera, said this was the first Iranian claim of an attack on US military assets in a Gulf state since early September.

The statement came amid broader tensions involving Iran, the US and Israel, including reported Israeli military preparations and continued US naval pressure on Iranian ports. More generally, the episode fits a pattern of escalation in the Gulf, where attacks on military or maritime infrastructure can quickly affect regional security and shipping routes.