TEHRAN, November 13. /Dunyo IA/. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.S. early-warning radar station in Bahrain, reports Dunyo IA correspondent, citing Al Jazeera.

According to the IRGC, the strike was carried out in retaliation for an air attack on a telecommunications tower in Sirik County, Hormozgan Province, in southern Iran. Iranian media reported that the radar installation was destroyed.

In a statement carried by the Tasnim news agency, the IRGC described the attack as a “serious warning” to its adversaries. It also warned that it was prepared to launch further strikes if similar actions were repeated.

U.S. and Bahraini officials had not commented on Tehran’s statement at the time of publication.

Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which oversees American naval operations in the Middle East. In the opening hours of the conflict on February 28, the American military base in Manama was also targeted.

This marks the first Iranian claim of an attack on U.S. military assets in a Gulf country since early September.

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