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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Says It Destroyed U.S. Early-Warning Radar in Bahrain After Sirik Strike
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it hit and destroyed a U.S. early‑warning radar site in Bahrain in response to U.S. airstrikes on a communications tower in Sirik, Iran, and is warning of more retaliation if those raids continue.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has struck a U.S. early‑warning radar system in Bahrain and destroyed it, and is warning that more attacks will follow if American airstrikes on Iran continue.
According to IRGC statements carried by IRGC‑affiliated media on 13 November, the radar in Bahrain was targeted in retaliation for overnight U.S. airstrikes on a communications tower in Sirik, in southern Iran. The IRGC linked the two events directly and framed the Bahrain attack as a response to U.S. action on Iranian territory.
There has been no public confirmation from the United States of any damage in Bahrain, and there is no independent verification so far of the radar’s destruction, the type of weapon used, or whether anyone was killed or injured. The claim nonetheless points to a more direct clash between Iranian forces and U.S. military infrastructure hosted on the territory of a third country.
Bahrain is home to major U.S. military facilities that support surveillance and operations across the Gulf. Early‑warning radars are used to detect incoming aircraft and missiles and to give commanders as much time as possible to assess and respond to threats. If the system Iran says it hit was actually disabled or destroyed, it could temporarily complicate how U.S. forces monitor airspace over parts of the Gulf.
The IRGC’s warning of further retaliation if U.S. airstrikes continue signals a tit‑for‑tat pattern: U.S. strikes on infrastructure inside Iran, followed by Iranian strikes on U.S. systems based in neighboring states. That raises the stakes for host countries that host U.S. units and equipment and ties their territory more tightly to the cycle of action and response.
How Washington describes any damage in Bahrain, whether it moves more air‑defense assets into the kingdom, and whether Iranian outlets publish images they say prove a successful strike will help show how far this exchange is likely to go. Any new U.S. strikes on Iranian territory beyond the Sirik communications tower would be another sign that both sides are prepared to keep targeting each other’s fixed infrastructure in and around the Gulf.