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US military confirms Iranian attack on Bahrain, says it shot down two IRGC drones
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The American military confirms that Iran launched an attack on Bahrain overnight, the first such attack on a Gulf country since early September.
This morning, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to have targeted a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, in response to an attack on a telecommunications tower in Iran’s southern Sirik county.
In a statement a short while ago, the US Central Command confirms that “the IRGC launched two one-way attack drones toward Bahrain,” but says that both were shot down by American forces.
“There were no injuries or damage,” CENTCOM says, contrary to the IRGC’s claims.
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