Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched a retaliatory missile and drone strike against an American airbase early Thursday, an escalation that threatens the ceasefire announced in April.
According to a statement broadcast by Iran's state-run IRIB network, the IRGC targeted the facility at 4:50 a.m. local time, identifying it as the launch point for a U.S. operation conducted hours earlier near Bandar Abbas Airport. The IRGC did not disclose the target's location. In neighboring Kuwait, a key U.S. ally, the General Staff of the Armed Forces said its air defense systems were intercepting "hostile" incoming threats.
As reported by CNN, the exchange follows a U.S. operation near the Strait of Hormuz. A senior U.S. defense official confirmed American forces destroyed a drone ground-control station in Bandar Abbas and downed four drones that threatened commercial shipping.
The IRGC called its strike a "serious warning," declaring that any further American military action inside Iranian borders would trigger a "more decisive and crushing" response.
