Bahrain: US Patriot missile, not Iranian strike, caused March 9 blast over residential area

Bahraini authorities have held a US-built Patriot missile system responsible for an explosion over a residential neighborhood of the Persian Gulf kingdom earlier this month, which resulted in casualties.

The revelation was made in a brief official announcement to the Reuters news agency on Saturday.

This comes as the US military had earlier alleged that an Iranian drone had struck a residential area in Bahrain on March 9, injuring civilians.

Bahrain is one of the important centers of the US military and economic presence in the Persian Gulf region, and is also home to the United States Navy Fifth Fleet.

Iran has targeted the US Navy Fifth Fleet as part of its ongoing retaliatory strikes against the US-Israeli aggression, which began on February 28.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several senior military commanders were assassinated on the first day of the surprise and unprovoked aggression, which was launched even as Tehran was in the midst of negotiations with Washington over Iran's peaceful nuclear program.

Within the framework of their legitimate response, Iranian armed forces immediately initiated powerful missile and drone strikes on US interests in the region as well as Israeli assets in the occupied lands.

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