IRGC Warns Arab States Hosting US Bases of Retaliation

In a statement, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) blamed the United States for resuming a war it had never truly ended, only to flee the battlefield after suffering 'crushing responses' from Iran's armed forces, which it said were stronger now than at the start of the conflict on February 28.

'From yesterday, the enemy adopted a new approach, committing war crimes to hide its defeat in military confrontation — destructive attacks on hospitals, bridges, railways, airports, ports, telecommunications centres and the like, and the killing of civilians,' the statement said.

With no international body willing to stop 'American savagery,' the IRGC said Iran had no choice but to respond in kind to aggression. It said that for the time being it had limited its overnight strikes to military targets — hitting a U.S. troop assembly site at the Arifjan ground forces logistics centre in Kuwait, destroying a radar at the Ali al-Salem airbase, and smashing a weapons maintenance hangar and drone shelter — in order to give Washington a chance to change its 'dishonourable approach.'

The statement warned: 'Countries that host the aggressor American military and have placed their land at the disposal of the aggressor criminals for attacks on Iran should be prepared to receive a corresponding response, and should activate their civil defence units to safeguard the lives of their citizens and move them away from likely targets.'

According to Mehr News Agency, the IRGC emphasized that its actions were a direct response to U.S. aggression and war crimes, and that further escalation would depend on Washington's behavior.