Iran's Guards Say They Hit US Radar at Bahrain Base; Bahrain Issues Threat Alerts

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Sunday that it attacked a US air-defense radar at the Al-Rifaa helicopter base in Bahrain with six drones, while Bahrain issued two threat alerts, its first since September. The claim comes amid uncertainty over a US-Iran deal meant to end a war now nearly nine months old.

The Guards said the strike was retaliation for “hostile US actions,” Iranian outlets reported. Neither US nor Bahraini authorities had immediately confirmed the attack. Bahrain's interior ministry urged citizens and residents to stay calm and go to the nearest safe location; the alerts came within a span of more than two hours. Bahrain hosts the US Navy's Fifth Fleet. Two days earlier the Guards claimed an attack on a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, which the US military denied, saying it intercepted two Iranian drones and no damage resulted. The war began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28 and spread across the region, with Tehran firing missiles and drones at US bases in Gulf states. Diplomacy has yet to produce a breakthrough, though Washington and Tehran have held off on direct attacks. President Trump has said he might hold off on attacking Iran if there are no new provocations from Tehran or the Houthis.

The right-leaning New York Post leads with Bahrain's alerts and frames the Iranian claim as unconfirmed. It adds the earlier US denial, the war's timeline and Trump's comments on restraint, citing Fars and Press TV. The alternative Middle East Eye leads on the IRGC claim itself, quoting the statement on the state broadcaster's Telegram channel and noting the alerts. The Times of Israel's available text is only a headline and brief list of related items, including that US intelligence believes Iran may still have up to 2,500 missiles. Left-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing, while the other two sides had.