IRGC blitzes US base linked to telecom tower attack in south
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Monday it has carried out another retaliatory strike against an air base used by the United States to launch a military attack on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran.
The IRGC said its Aerospace Force struck and destroyed the air base from which the "aggressor US military" launched an attack on the telecom tower on Sirik Island in Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan. It did not specify which US base was targeted in the attack.
However, Kuwait's military said air defenses intercepted missile and drone attacks on Monday, while Washington claimed it had downed two Iranian missiles targeting US forces in the country.
The developments came after the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said late Sunday that it conducted "self-defense strikes" over the weekend against Iranian radar and drone command-and-control facilities in the city of Goruk and on Qeshm Island.
"The measured and deliberate strikes occurred on Saturday and Sunday," CENTCOM said in response to what it called "aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters."
The IRGC announced in a statement on Sunday that the elite force’s air defense units detected and successfully shot down an intruding MQ-1 Predator drone belonging to the “aggressor US military” shortly after it encroached upon Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf.
The statement added that the multi-mission and long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft was intercepted and destroyed as it entered the Iranian skies in the early hours of Sunday.