Iran's Armed Forces have announced new rounds of retaliatory operations against US military targets in the region featuring missile and drone strikes against facilities in Kuwait and Jordan following overnight US attacks on the Iranian coastline and southern cities.

The operations, which were carried out on Wednesday, were accompanied by a warning from the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) that, for now, Iran's reprisal remains focused on US offensive infrastructure in the region, but additional phases will follow.

‘Crushing blow’

Announcing its latest reprisal, the IRGC said that, during the eighth wave of its retaliatory Operation Nasr- (Victory) 2, its Navy and Aerospace Force carried out a combined missile-and-drone operation in response to “the enemy's attacks last night on locations along the country's southern coastline and in southern cities.”

According to the Corps, the operation targeted the early-warning radar of the C-RAM system at Kuwait's Ali al-Salem Airbase as well as “a gathering point of the criminal soldiers of the terrorist US army.”

The reprisal, the announcement asserted, dealt US forces “a crushing blow.”

Addressing the Kuwaiti people, the IRGC reminded that the United States was using the Arab nation’s territory to carry out unprovoked acts of aggression against Iran, urging the nation to “rid your country of the presence of these aggressors and, by fulfilling your Islamic duty, preserve your historical honor and dignity.”

Separately, the Army of the Islamic Republic said it had launched a drone strike against US military facilities in Jordan during the ninth phase of its retaliatory Operation Saeqeh (Lightning).

According to the Army's statement, loitering munitions targeted the fixed radar site, communications systems, and fuel depots of the US military at al-Azraq Airbase in Jordan. The statement described al-Azraq as a deployment site for missile defense systems and “one of the most important strategic and command centers for US forces operating in the West Asia region.”

The Army said the strike was carried out in retaliation for enemy attacks on parts of Iran, including the Bampur Army garrison in Iranshahr in the south, which led to the martyrdom of seven non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Army’s Ground Force.

It condemned the enemy's “barbaric attacks” on military barracks in Iranshahr, saying such actions reflected the enemy's “inhuman nature.” Stressing that the attacks “will never be erased from the pages of history,” the statement added that Army personnel “will not retreat in the slightest from the honorable duty of defending the Iranian nation and the Islamic homeland or avenging the blood of the beloved martyrs.”

IRGC warns of further retaliatory phases

Meanwhile, commenting on the latest developments, IRGC spokesperson Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi said the enemy should not expect to prolong the confrontation by turning it into a war of attrition.

"The enemy should not assume that it can sustain the current dynamics of the battlefield and turn the war into a war of attrition," he wrote in a post on X.

“Iran's operations are currently focused on destroying the US’s offensive infrastructure in the region. The next phases will then begin,” he added.

IRGC hunts down invading hostile drones

Separately, the IRGC announced that its air defense units had intercepted and shot down a US LUCAS unmanned aerial vehicle over the skies of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. According to the Corps, the drone was detected by the country's integrated air defense network before being struck by a surface-to-air missile system.

In another statement, the IRGC also said one enemy MQ-9 drone was also intercepted and destroyed over the southern Iranian city of Andimeshk by an advanced air defense system of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force.

The United States has perpetrated numerous violations against Iranian territory since April 7, when US President Donald Trump announced a unilateral ceasefire in the latest bout of wholesale American-Israeli aggression targeting the Islamic Republic.

The violations continued even after Washington and Tehran signed a Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding last month, whose first clause clearly mandates cessation of aggression on all fronts.

The US has also been trying to help vessels evade the maritime route designated by the Islamic Republic for safe and legal passage through the Strait of Hormuz, by seeking to escort trespassing vessels through an illegal passageway.

Iran's Armed Forces have staged uncompromising retaliation in the face of each instance of violation, including those in support of illegal vessel movement in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Iran's Army Ground Force has declared that a "decisive response" is certain and imminent after the US carried out a pre-dawn missile attack that deliberately targeted the sleeping quarters of Iranian military personnel, killing seven servicemen including conscripts.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the Army revealed that US military forces launched 13 missiles early in the morning squarely at a barracks and accommodation facilities belonging to an Iranian Army Ground Force base in Bampur, located in the southern part of Sistan and Baluchestan Province.

The statement fiercely denounced Washington for zeroing in on sleeping quarters, a guesthouse, and guard posts at the facility—soft targets where personnel rested unsuspectingly in the dead of night.

It asserted that the United States intentionally aimed at those areas with the sole and murderous objective of causing the highest possible death toll among Iranian service members.

The Army noted that damage and fatalities were kept relatively limited only because defensive measures and precautions had been implemented and activated in time, mitigating what could have been an even greater tragedy.

Nevertheless, seven members of the 388th Iranshahr Brigade comprising both career soldiers and conscripts were martyred in their sleep during the strike, while several others suffered wounds and are currently undergoing medical treatment for their injuries.

The brigade deployed in the region is primarily tasked with confronting cross-border attacks by the most violent terrorists being backed and directed by US, British, and Israeli intelligence services with the explicit goal of undermining Iran's national security and destabilizing its border regions.

"The revenge for the blood of the martyrs of this crime is certain and imminent," the statement said. "The Islamic Republic of Iran's Army, with God's help and alongside other armed forces, will deliver a decisive response to this aggressive action by the American enemy."

Expressing heartfelt condolences to the families of the fallen and their comrades-in-arms, the Ground Force emphasized that Iran's border security remains steadfast and unshaken despite the aggression.

The United States has carried out numerous unwarranted attacks on Iranian soil, particularly along the country's southern coastline, as part of Washington's broader push to forcibly enable illegal maritime traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

In response to those violations, Tehran has shut down the vital waterway and vowed to retain the closure until the United States ceases its interference and respects Iran's sovereignty.

Iran's Armed Forces have retaliated against every instance of unprovoked US aggression by striking sensitive and strategic American targets across the region, demonstrating their resolve to defend the nation's territorial integrity.

The latest American attack on the Bampur base comes amid longstanding US intelligence reports and official disclosures detailing American-Israeli plots to prop up, arm, and aid Takfiri and separatist terrorist groups operating along Iran's borders, with the stated strategic objective of invading Iranian territory and ultimately fragmenting the country along ethnic and confessional divides.

Western and Zionist intelligence agencies are actively financing, equipping, and directing extremist networks to exploit sectarian and ethnic fault lines within Iran, aiming to weaken the Islamic Republic from within and carve out separate entities in the country's border provinces.

On Monday, the Army spokesman warned the United States that no measure of American aggression would force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

"The aggressive and corrupt president of the United States must learn to respect international law, the rights of nations, and the dignity of peoples," Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia said.

"As we have previously stated, the Strait of Hormuz will never be reopened through war, hostility, or acts of aggression by the United States. Our armed forces are fully prepared to defend our nation's interests and will respond decisively to any further acts of hostility, just as we have done in the past and will continue to do in the future."

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