“Whoever Attacks You, Attack Them In The Same Manner”: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Warns Gulf States to Expect More Strikes

Iran hit Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia on Saturday, one week after the ceasefire with the U.S. fell apart. A desalination plant went down, Kuwait’s main airport shut, and firefighters were among the wounded.

Kuwait International Airport suspended operations Saturday as missiles and drones came in waves, and a power and water desalination plant took a direct hit. It was the second strike on Kuwaiti desalination sites in two days.

The attacks followed a seventh straight night of U.S. strikes on Iranian military targets, including logistics hubs, escalating a war that reignited when the ceasefire collapsed last week.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it struck a U.S. military support center at Camp Arifjan and destroyed a radar facility at Ali Al Salem Air Base. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation reported one of its oil facilities was hit, causing significant damage and injuries. Kuwait’s armed forces said they intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, and that firefighters and oil sector workers were hurt responding to the attacks.

The IRGC laid out its reasoning in a statement warning U.S. allies to brace for more: “Since there is no international institution to prevent the savagery of the U.S. military, we have no path before us except the Quranic command: ‘Whoever attacks you, attack them in the same manner.'”

Iranian state media said the Guards also hit Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain, where U.S. combat aircraft were gathered, and an intelligence data center. State TV claimed Iran destroyed at least two U.S. fighter jets and three other aircraft in a strike on the U.S. base in Al Azraq, Jordan. Reuters could not verify the reports.

Iran struck Saudi Arabia for the first time in about three months, according to two people familiar with the matter, setting off early warning alarms in Al-Kharj east of Riyadh and at Yanbu on the Red Sea coast. One attack targeted the Prince Sultan Airbase, which hosts U.S. forces.

Iran said it was responding to U.S. strikes on bridges, power facilities and other infrastructure. Iranian media reported three people killed and eight wounded in Hormozgan Province on Saturday, with two bridges and a road tunnel damaged. A day earlier, seven were reported killed in strikes on bridges in the port of Bandar Khamir. In the southern city of Jask, some 10,000 people across 20 villages were left without water.

Oil prices climbed more than 4% on Friday to their highest level in over a month. Both sides have taken aim at shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway that carries one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

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