Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it destroyed US radar in Bahrain

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Friday that it destroyed a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, the first claim of an attack on American military assets in the Gulf in months, according to Africanews.

There was no immediate confirmation of the strike from Manama or Washington, Africanews reported. Reuters, Al Jazeera, The Hindu and Anadolu Agency carried the Guards' claim without a response from either government.

Iranian state media said the strike was retaliation for what it described as an air attack on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran. Anadolu Agency named the location as Sirik. No toll was reported for either site, and the reports did not say who Tehran held responsible for the tower attack.

Reuters reported that the Guards described the Bahrain target as an early-warning radar. Al Jazeera and The Hindu reported that Iran said it struck a US military radar in Bahrain, while Anadolu reported the Guards' claim to have destroyed it.

The claim came during what Africanews described as a fragile lull in the conflict between Iran and the United States. That war began on 28 February 2026 after US-Israeli strikes killed Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Africanews reported. Iran answered with missiles and drones against several countries in the region, and armed groups it backs in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq joined the fighting.

Days before the announcement, a public exhibition near Tehran displayed Iranian-made drones and missiles, Africanews reported, among them the Emad missile, with a reported range of up to 1,700 km, and the Khorramshahr ballistic missile, which can reach up to 2,000 km. On Tuesday, state television broadcast heavily edited and partly blurred video of an underground "missile city" and new, unidentified surface-to-surface missiles.

Diplomatic efforts led by Qatar and Pakistan are under way to negotiate an end to the war, according to Africanews.