Kuwait’s air defenses were engaging hostile missile and drone attacks as Iran threatened retaliation for US strikes. The Kuwaiti army said the response was underway while the country’s General Staff of the Army said the explosions heard were the result of air defense systems intercepting hostile attacks.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said their response to the US strikes on Wednesday targeted dozens of US military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait. The IRGC said it struck 85 key US military facilities and carried out a joint missile and drone operation through the IRGC Navy and Aerospace Force.
Qalibaf backs Iran’s warning
Qalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and top negotiator, posted on X: “The era of bullying and extortion is over. It leads nowhere. We don’t fold.” The line followed the Iranian claims about facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait and gave the retaliation a sharper political edge.
US gives no response
The US did not comment on the Iranian claims that facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait had been hit. The US also did not comment on whether a drone had been shot down, even as the IRGC said it shot down an MQ-9 drone and Press TV reported that Revolutionary Guards downed a US MQ9 drone in the country’s south.
For Kuwait, the immediate issue is the air-defense engagement itself. Air defense intercepts mean incoming missiles or drones were close enough to trigger a live military response, but the article does not establish whether any of the claimed strikes in Bahrain or Kuwait reached their targets.
Bahrain and Kuwait under fire
The sequence is now clear enough to track: late last month, the US carried out its first known military strikes against Iran since then; on Wednesday, the US launched strikes against Iran after attacks on vessels in the strait of Hormuz; after that, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they hit US military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait. The next development that matters is whether Kuwait’s air-defense action holds the line while the claims from Iran and the silence from the US stay in place.
