Iran destroys US military assets in fresh missile‑drone barrage
Oil prices hit $94 amid warning about fallouts for global economy
Iran’s Armed Forces unleashed a barrage of missiles and drones toward US bases in the region and sites in Israel, amid an all-out war that drove Brent crude to a multi‑year high of $94 a barrel and canceled thousands of flights across the Middle East.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Saturday the Iranian military fired “Fattah and Imad precision‑strategic missiles” at US-Israeli military and support facilities during a missile‑drone operation on the eighth day of the aggression which began on 28 February.
The Central Khatam‑al‑Anbiya Headquarters – Iran’s war room – also said the US Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates was hit overnight, with an advanced radar, maintenance hangars for MQ‑9 drones and U‑2 aircraft and a Patriot system taken down.
The statement linked the base to the US missile strike on a girls’ school in Minab, south Iran, on 28 February, which claimed 165 lives, most of them children.
In the same wave, the Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait was struck by cruise and ballistic missiles, blasting its early‑warning radar, ancillary facilities, fuel tanks and the two runways the US used in its attack on Iran.
A second coordinated strike wiped out radar, air‑traffic‑control, satellite‑communication and fuel‑supply equipment at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar with suicide drones and ballistic missiles.
Israeli cities also came under fire from the IRGC’s Khaybar missiles.
Bloomberg, citing an unnamed US official, reported that Iran knocked out a mobile AN/TPY‑2 radar – a key component of the THAAD missile‑defense system – at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. The radar, valued at $300 million, had been crucial for early‑warning and coordination of US missile defense in the Persian Gulf.
Israeli Channel 14 said the damage to US radars hampered early‑warning capabilities, saying sirens sounded only a minute before Iranian missiles arrived, whereas Israeli domestic alerts normally used to give a 8‑10 minute warning.
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