IRGC says it targeted US base in retaliation for strikes, as ceasefire teeters

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted an American base on Thursday in retaliation for US strikes on the country’s south, Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB reports.

“Following this morning’s aggression by the invading US military against a location on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas Airport using aerial projectiles, the American air base that served as the source of the attack was targeted at 4:50 am (0120 GMT),” the IRGC says, according to IRIB.

It does not provide details of the location of the base, though Kuwait, a US ally, said it was responding to missile and drone attacks on Thursday morning.

The back-and-forth challenges the fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran, four days after US President Donald Trump claimed a deal extending the truce by 60 days was nearly complete.

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