Iran yesterday launched a wave of attacks on US sites across the Middle East as violence surged after an extensive US bombardment and the deaths of four people at an Iranian wedding party.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced attacks on US bases in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.
US President Donald Trump had warned earlier of “much harder and higher” attacks if Iran retaliated to the US strikes, which Iran’s military and state media said killed 18 people.
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The Iranian Red Crescent on Tuesday said that four people including a child were killed and more than 50 people were wounded by a US attack at a wedding in Iran’s south.
A video shared by an Iranian government account showed debris and damage at what it said was the wedding site in Sirik following a US strike, with people heard screaming in the background.
“Unfortunately, this is a residential building. And unfortunately, this happened during my daughter’s wedding ceremony,” Ali Mallahi, father of the bride and owner of the building, said in a video carried by state TV. “It is a very saddening incident... Thank God the casualties were not higher.”
Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf lashed out over the wedding attack.
“If a power acts like Satan, picks targets like Satan and kills like Satan, it’s Satan,” he wrote on X.
The US military did not address the incident directly.
US Central Command spokesman Tim Hawkins said that “the US military never targets civilians, unlike the IRGC.”
Iran’s retaliatory strikes included “a coordinated missile and drone attack on US bases in Erbil” in Kurdistan, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
The IRGC also announced a missile attack on a US Marine training camp in Jordan on the Gulf of Aqaba, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported.
In the Gulf, air raid sirens sounded in Bahrain and also Kuwait, where authorities said an Iranian drone set off a blaze at a residential complex.
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