Iran claims strikes destroyed Patriot systems, THAAD radar at US bases in Jordan, Kuwait
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims to have destroyed US military radar and defense systems in Jordan and Kuwait during retaliatory strikes. The escalation marks a significant increase in tensions between Tehran and Washington.
Why it matters
Direct military confrontation between Iran and US assets in the Middle East poses a severe risk of regional conflict and global instability.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Thursday claimed it had destroyed Patriot air defence systems, a THAAD missile defence radar, an MQ-9 Reaper drone depot and other military infrastructure in retaliatory strikes on US bases in Jordan and Kuwait, as tensions between Tehran and Washington continued to escalate.In a statement carried by Iran's state broadcaster IRIB, the IRGC said its forces targeted US military facilities in Jordan in response to what it described as repeated American attacks on Iranian territory."Honorable and noble people of Jordan, your Mujahideen brothers in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in punishment of the child-killing American army and in response to the repeated aggressions against the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, destroyed a radar of the American THAAD missile defense system with lightning strikes on American bases," the IRGC said in the statement.The IRGC claimed that a Patriot air defence system and a…
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