The Iranian Army's Ground Force promised a crushing response to the U.S. after an air raid on its barracks in the southern city of Bampur on Wednesday (15 July) killed seven servicemen and wounded 13 others.
“Following the cowardly aggression by the terrorist U.S. military against the Bampur garrison in Iranshahr, which resulted in the deaths of seven career and conscript personnel, a decisive response to this crime will be delivered at the appropriate time,” the force said in a statement.
According to the state-run IRNA news agency, the U.S. military fired 13 missiles at the base, targeting the barracks and living quarters of an Iranian Army garrison in Bampur, Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
“Vengeance for the pure blood of these martyrs is certain and imminent,” the statement read.
In a separate statement, the Iranian Army said it had targeted the hangar housing F-18 fighter jets, accommodation facilities and an equipment warehouse used by the U.S. military at Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan with kamikaze drones.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had struck U.S. military facilities at Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan and attacked a U.S. logistics centre in Kuwait, as well as the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, late on Tuesday and early on Wednesday.
“The noble and honorable people of Kuwait! This operation was a response to the American criminals, and what is expected of you, the honorable and Muslim nation, is to expel these child-killing occupiers from your soil,” the force said in a statement addressed to Kuwaitis.
“The pure soil of Kuwait should not be occupied by criminals who, in the past two years alone, martyred 70,000 Palestinians, including 20,000 children, in the heroic Gaza Strip, and committed the Minab School tragedy,” it added.
According to the Sepah News website, which publishes statements from the IRGC, the attacks were a continuation of Iran’s reprisal operations against U.S. military strikes for a fourth consecutive day.
The exchange of fire between Iranian and U.S. forces follows Washington’s threat to withdraw from the ceasefire agreement with Tehran, which was signed online in June by the presidents of Iran and the U.S. and mediated by Pakistan.
President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would defend every inch of its territory, according to IRNA.
He made the remarks after U.S. President Donald Trump reposted his earlier social media posts calling for the occupation of Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf, renewed threats to bomb Iran’s energy and railway infrastructure, and comments directed at the Iranian people.
Army spokesperson Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia also said the Iranian Armed Forces would not make the slightest compromise over the Strait of Hormuz.
“The only way for the United States to reopen the strategic waterway is to respect the rights of the Iranian nation and comply with the terms of the Iran-U.S. Memorandum of Understanding to end the war,” the Iranian general told a meeting on Tuesday in Tehran.
In New York, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations rejected claims by U.S. ambassador Tammy Bruce that Tehran was supporting the Houthis in Yemen.
“The representative of the United States once again departed from the agenda under consideration, abused the Security Council's platform to disseminate disinformation, and advanced a series of baseless and politically motivated allegations against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said in a letter to the UN secretary-general and the president of the Security Council.
Calling the accusations “baseless”, Amir-Saeid Iravani said, "The United States is the aggressor - not a victim”.
In a separate development, Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned the UK’s designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a security threat, describing the move as “unjustified and irresponsible”.
“The hostile decision against Iran is based on unfounded security allegations, even though the UK itself hosts and supports terrorist and violent networks and groups,” it said in a statement.
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