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US retaliates against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard over killing of American troops
The US has targeted bridges and electrical facilities in Iran; Tehran has retaliated by hitting power and desalination plants in Kuwait
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The US military launched air strikes on Sunday targeting Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to retaliate for the killing of the American troops in Jordan, further widening the crossfire between the nations as they fight over the Strait of Hormuz.
The strikes, now part of a weeklong campaign that has seen Iran strike US-allied countries across the Middle East, come as an interim deal seeking to find an end to the Iran war has collapsed.
The US has targeted bridges, electrical facilities and other targets in Iran, and Tehran has retaliated by hitting power and desalination plants in Kuwait, threatening daily life in that small, oil-rich desert nation. Iran also has stepped up its threats to further expand the strikes, drawing a warning overnight from the United Arab Emirates, home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
The US military’s Central Command in its statement also said it hit “Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defence facilities, maritime capabilities and missile and drone storage sites”. It also said for the first time it was specifically targeting the IRGC, a key power base in Iran’s theocracy that controls its ballistic missile arsenal.
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