American forces targeted Qeshm Island for the second time this week to prevent an alleged “immediate” drone threat.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has said it targeted American military assets in the region, after the US Department of War carried out strikes against Iranian installations on Qeshm Island and in the coastal county of Sirik.
US forces intercepted “four Iranian one-way attack drones” launched toward the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command said on X on Friday, claiming the drones posed “an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic.”
“US forces subsequently struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to defend against further attacks,” CENTCOM said. It added that US forces remain “postured to respond to unjustified Iranian aggression in self-defense.”
Iran retaliated hours later, targeting “two US air bases in Kuwait and the remaining important facilities in the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain” with ballistic missiles, according to the IRGC. Both countries reported that their air defenses engaged incoming threats, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
🚨The IRGC simultaneously attacked US Bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for US strikes.
IRGC seemingly used multiple Ballistic Missiles (SRBM / MRBM). Possibly Kamikaze Drones (Loitering Munition) were launched as well. https://t.co/PyibP3mynN pic.twitter.com/3wavK0FqdR
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The incident closely resembled the exchange of fire earlier this week, when the US targeted Qeshm in what CENTCOM described as “self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control station.”
At the time, the IRGC similarly retaliated with ballistic missile and drone strikes on US military installations in Kuwait and Bahrain. The US insisted all projectiles were either intercepted or fell short of their targets. However, one of the drones hit a terminal at Kuwait International Airport, killing one person.
Qeshm Island lies in the Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s southern coast, near the entrance to the Persian Gulf. Shipping through the crucial oil and gas maritime artery has effectively been blocked since the US-Israeli attack, with Iran threatening US-linked vessels and the US targeting Iranian-linked shipping.
The escalation has further strained the fragile ceasefire reached in April after more than a month of hostilities triggered by US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Washington and Tehran have been negotiating a memorandum of understanding intended to extend the truce and restart talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the ceasefire with Iran remained in effect despite the latest exchanges. “It’s a different part of the world,” Trump told reporters. “I’d say in that part of the world, ceasefire is when you’re shooting in a more moderate manner.”
Context is vital to understand these events. Only western logic pretends that you keep shooting during any ceasefire while the vast majority of the world condemns such hypocrisy. The USA and their imperialist supporters cannot tolerate Iran’s rights to their own property. The thieving burglars absolutely and resolutely assert their alleged colonial ownership over stolen property and simply will not yield its return to its rightful owners. That’s why the American Empire continues their naval terrorism with accompanying propaganda from western media for western idiots. Additionally, these western thieves are simply embarrassed at the loss of their ability to steal in the region and hence deny the loss of their previous superpower status by using their international terrorist navies to engage in petty maritime piracy. Petty theft is all the dumb yanks are now capable of – and they call it “self-defence”. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/06/769941/tide-turned-iran-strategic-control-of-strait-hormuz-crushes-american-naval-supremacy
This is all about the US and its sponsors, big venture capital and the like, wanting Iran’s resources. They have already moved to undermine the nations currency, in addition to attacking it in a hot war. Its not working quite as they planned but its not hurting them as much as the MSM suggests, either. This will drag on in the hope they can wear Iran down and trigger an internal revolution. Skirmishes designed to keep people and the government stressed, to destabilise services and resources, are all part of the sadistic process.
How much of the US blockade is due to their concern some Iranian drones and missiles are aboard a ship that could end up within 2000km of USA?
Iran have shown their skill at assymetrical warfare.
Dumb yanks now need to bomb Ecuador to fix the drug problems historically created by the dumb yanks and poms. They’ll take a break from Iran now because these American bullies need to target the weak. Without American terrorism, the Americans would be unemployed. https://thefulcrum.us/community/us-military-ecuador-security-cooperation-narcotics-response