Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched ballistic missiles at the U.S. Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan following what it described as U.S. airstrikes on military facilities and telecommunications infrastructure along Iran’s southern coast. In a statement, the IRGC also accused the United States of attempting to move vessels through a route south of the Strait of Hormuz that it called unlawful, and warned that any further U.S. military action would prompt additional retaliation.
IRGC Statement:
The criminal U.S. regime, after imposing its will on the government of the Sultanate of Oman, attempted last night to once again repeat a failed experiment by provoking several vessels to travel along an illegal route south of the Strait of Hormuz. They were stopped by the decisive response of the IRGC Navy.
To make up for this failure, the child-killing U.S. military carried out air attacks against a number of coastal bases and telecommunications towers along Iran’s southern coast. As we had promised, it immediately received a crushing response to its aggression.
The IRGC Aerospace Force targeted U.S. military bases. In the first phase of this response, it targeted major military infrastructure and facilities at the U.S. Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan, destroying the base’s command-and-control center and MQ-9 drone hangars with several ballistic missiles.
Continued aggression by the U.S., which has violated its commitments, will be met with even harsher responses.
