Iran claims strike on US radar in Bahrain

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed on Friday it had targeted and destroyed a US early-warning radar system in Bahrain.

In a statement, the IRGC said its Aerospace Force carried out the strike in response to what it claimed was a US air attack on a telecommunications tower in Sirik, in southern Iran.

The claim had not been independently verified.

The IRGC described the operation as a warning to the United States to stop its aerial operations and what it called oil smuggling in the Strait of Hormuz.