IRGC pounds US assets in Kuwait, Jordan, says attacks are Iran’s ‘legal right’

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it had carried out attacks on US military assets in Kuwait and Jordan, noting that targeting bases used in operations against Iran was its "legal, religious and logical right."

In two separate statements addressed to the people of Kuwait and Jordan, the IRGC said the operations were conducted in retaliation for repeated US aggression against Iran.

The IRGC said its forces struck the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, destroying a Patriot air defense system, a large military equipment depot and an MQ-9 drone hangar. It also said drone attacks targeted US troop quarters and two helicopter hangars at Camp Udairi, causing casualties and damaging several helicopters and drones.

In Jordan, the IRGC said it destroyed a THAAD missile defense radar, a Patriot system and a C-RAM radar at a US base. It also said that the precision attacks have set fuel storage facilities, a helicopter equipment warehouse and a helicopter maintenance hangar on fire.

In its statements, the IRGC rejected the "completely false" allegations that its strikes on US military facilities violate the independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the countries in the region.

"From our perspective, the independence, territorial integrity, and sovereignty of your government are fully respected," it said.

It added that US military bases function under American rather than local authority, noting that these facilities are governed by the Americans without control of regional countries’ authorities.

According to the statements, the US military police control access to and operations within such facilities while American laws, military police and judicial authorities not that of hosting countries govern activities inside the bases.

"Therefore, it is the United States that has violated your territorial integrity and sovereignty, not us," the IRGC said.

It emphasized, “Iran attacks the lands that are occupied by the US military, an army that knows nothing but crime."

The statement also pointed to the burial of the remains of schoolchildren martyred in a US airstrike on an Iranian elementary school in the southern city of Minab on the first day of the US-Israeli aggression on February 28.

"Yesterday, the grieving people of Minab held funeral processions for the remains of their schoolchildren, which had been discovered under the rubble, and laid them to rest," it said.

It noted that 168 souls, mainly students, were killed on the first day of the war in the attack by the “child-killing army” of the US, emphasizing that such crimes continue with some of them being carried out using US bases in Kuwait.

“It is our legal, religious, and logical right to target the invaders of our country and the killers of our children from wherever they attack,” the Iranian elite force pointed out.

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