The Iranian Revolutionary Guards announces a drone attack on an American radar base in Bahrain, while Manama claims the attacks were intercepted.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Sunday that its air and space force had launched six drones targeting a US air defense radar facility at the Al-Rifah helicopter base in Bahrain, describing the operation as the second phase of retaliation against US military aggression.
The Revolutionary Guards claimed that its drones had successfully attacked their targets, with explosions heard in parts of Bahrain.
Bahrain, however, disputed Iran's account, announcing that its air defense systems had intercepted and destroyed several Iranian airstrikes before they reached their targets, according to Reuters.
The interceptions, according to the first reports since September, followed two warnings calling on residents to seek shelter.
The Revolutionary Guards also claimed that US efforts to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz had failed, saying that Washington was trying to divert attention from the waterways continued closure.
Declaring that the "Strait of Hormuz is closed", the IRGC warned that any further US aggression would face a more severe response, adding that it had deployed more drones against American targets than in the previous phase of its activity.