6:35 a.m. – Iran says it targeted US command center in Jordan
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it fired ballistic missiles at a US command center in Jordan in response to US strikes against Iran.
This “punitive operation against the aggressor” targeted “the Al-Azraq air base and its control center, using 12 ballistic missiles,” declared the Guards cited by the Tasnim agency, ensuring that they had destroyed these installations “and a large number of combat planes.”
6:30 a.m. – Kuwait closes airspace due to Iranian attacks
Kuwait’s civil aviation authority announced “the temporary closure of the airspace” of the country, attacked by Iran in retaliation for American strikes. “This measure follows Iranian attacks on the State of Kuwait and the potential risks this poses for civil aviation in the region,” the authority said in a statement.
The night’s news
– The United States carried out new bombings at dawn against Iran, which announced responses against military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain and promised to target all ships venturing into the Strait of Hormuz. Explosions were heard early Thursday morning on the island of Qeshm, Minab, Sirik and the port of Bandar Abbas in the south of the country, Iranian media reported.
– Donald Trump accused Tehran of procrastinating in negotiations to stop the war in the Middle East. “We were really on the verge of concluding an agreement, but they keep leading us on, they don’t care about us,” the American president said in front of the press on Wednesday.
– In retaliation for the latest American strikes, the Revolutionary Guards, Tehran’s ideological army, said they had launched drones on the military bases of Ali al-Salem and Ahmad al-Jaber, in Kuwait, and on the Sheikh Isa air base, in Bahrain.
– Tehran also warned that its forces would target any ship attempting to cross the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s trade in oil and liquefied natural gas normally transits.
