Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said it targeted an American air base in the region after fresh U.S. strikes on southern Iran overnight.
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Kuwait, which hosts a United States base, said it had intercepted “hostile missile and drone threats” but did not confirm the target.

‎The Iranian missile launch came after the United States shot down Iranian drones over the Strait of Hormuz and struck a military site in Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city in southern Iran.

‎It is the second time in three days that the United States has attacked targets in Iran, saying they were carried out in self-defence. The renewed hostilities threaten a fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran.

‎The IRGC said the attack on the United States air base took place in the early hours of Thursday morning and targeted
“the source” of earlier American strikes on Iran, according to state broadcaster IRIB.

United States Central Command (Centcom) said Iran’s attack on Kuwait was an “egregious ceasefire violation” that occurred “hours after Iranian forces launched five one-way attack drones that posed a clear threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz”.
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It said all the drones were intercepted and that a sixth drone launched from an Iranian ground control site in Bandar Abbas was also prevented.

‎Centcom described its actions as “measured, purely defensive, and intended to maintain the ceasefire”.
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Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqai meanwhile condemned the US strikes and said they constituted a violation of the ceasefire.

‎He added that the Islamic republic would “take all necessary measures to defend its national sovereignty”, according to quotes cited by IRIB.

‎Kuwait’s foreign affairs ministry strongly condemned what it termed “criminal Iranian attacks that targeted” its territory.

‎Earlier this week, the United States confirmed a previous round of “self-defence” strikes on southern Iran on Monday in which they targeted Iranian missile sites and boats attempting to lay mines in the Strait, where thousands of commercial tanker ships are stranded as a result of the conflict.