The reported strike on the air base comes following three days of conflict after joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran that left the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dead
Iranian media is reporting that a drone and missile attack has destroyed a United States air base in the Middle East.
The base, Bahrain’s Sheikh Isa region, was reportedly struck early on Tuesday, March 3, as fighting in the Middle East enters it fourth day. The US embassy in Saudi Arabia was earlier struck by two drones.
Israel and the US hit Iran in joint strikes on several key sites on Saturday, February 28. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died in the strikes over the weekend.
Iran has retaliated by striking key sites across the Middle East, closing major airports, damaging famous buildings and causing panic across the region.
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Footage posted by Fars news agency, affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), appears to show a wave of rockets exploding into distant targets.
Fars news agency claims the drone and missile attack destroyed a US command and staff building air base. It also said that the attack caused fuel tanks to explode. Smoke could be seen rising from a US-run naval base in Bahrain earlier on, the BBC reported.
“The fourteenth wave of Operation True Promise 4 by the IRGC Navy Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted the U.S. air base in Bahrain’s Sheikh Isa region with an extensive drone and missile attack at dawn today,” Fars news agency wrote in a post on X.
The US State Department has ordered American citizens to immediately leave Bahrain, along with a several other countries in the Middle East.
The countries to which warnings have been issued include: Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
The US has not yet commented on the reported strikes.
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