IRGC claims it wiped out a US radar in Bahrain, threatens more strikes

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it hit and destroyed an American early-warning radar system on Bahrain, according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim News. The IRGC's public relations office framed the strike as retaliation for an attack on a telecommunications tower in Sirik, in Iran's southern Hormozgan province.

The force didn't stop at the claim. Its statement warned that if what it called violations and acts of aggression happen again, the IRGC Aerospace Force is in a state of full readiness to engage without limits.

The IRGC also aimed a warning at shipping and oil. It said companies that break regulations and let themselves be misled by the aggressor enemy will face even more severe punitive measures, tying the threat to regional oil smuggling and maritime rules.

Sirik itself came under attack on Thursday, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported. The outlet said the city, which overlooks the Strait of Hormuz, was struck by the enemy and gave no further detail on who was behind it.

The exchange lands alongside tough talk from Washington. President Donald Trump said Thursday on Truth Social that the US no longer needs a deal with Iran and that he told Vice President JD Vance to concentrate instead on corruption in Democrat-run American cities, adding, We've got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we've got their Strait.

Earlier this month, Iran's National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said any further US attack would make every military base used to threaten Iran a legitimate target, vowing lethal strikes from West Asia to Europe and writing on X: NO SAFE DISTANCE. NO SAFE HAVEN. NO IMMUNITY. The Wall Street Journal reported that Vance was weighing direct talks with Rezaei, with Trump said to have authorized a still-preliminary diplomatic push, though Rezaei has denied reports of a planned meeting.