The Public Relations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that its naval forces launched a drone attack at exactly 2:30 AM today, targeting the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
This attack came in response to US forces bombing several points in the "Jask," "Sirik," and "Qeshm" regions of southern Iran early this morning under flimsy pretexts. The US bombing resulted in damage to a communications tower in Sirik and the destruction of two water tanks in the "Bemani" sector.
The statement confirmed that clashes are ongoing and that Iranian forces are countering the aggression, warning of harsher responses if what it described as the enemy's "evil acts" continue.
In a related context regarding the ongoing aerial clashes in the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC announced that its modern air defenses managed to intercept and shoot down an American "MQ-9" drone in the airspace of "Jam" city in Bushehr Governorate, after it attempted to approach the operations area in the northern Gulf to intervene in the battle.
For its part, the "Khatam al-Anbiya (PBUH)" Central Headquarters issued a statement confirming that the Army and the IRGC launched an intensive attack targeting a number of US bases in the region, in response to recent US attacks in southern Iran, which Washington justified by claiming one of its helicopters had crashed.
The headquarters warned the US military that any repetition of attacks on Iranian territory would be met with harsher and broader strikes targeting a pre-defined list of targets in the region.