Iran’s military says it attacked US bases in Jordan, Bahrain

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A statement from Iran’s military has said Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Azraq and Bahrain’s Isa Air Base have been targeted with drones, Al Jazeera reports.

“The army targeted the ‘housing and welfare buildings’ and ‘equipment warehouses’ of the terrorist US army at the Azraq base in Jordan with drones in the morning,” the statement, cited by the Mehr News Agency, said.

The army said it later targeted equipment warehouses and aircraft maintenance hangars of the US army at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain using Arash suicide drones, AFP reported.

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