Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on November 13, 2026, that its aircraft had attacked and destroyed a U.S. early-warning radar in Bahrain. The United States and Bahrain had not responded to the claim at the time of the report, and the reported damage was not independently confirmed.
The IRGC said the strike was in response to an air attack on a telecommunications tower in Sirik, in Iran’s Hormozgan province. It described the operation as a warning and called on the opposing side to stop what it termed aerial provocations and oil smuggling in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency reported late on November 12, citing an official source, that the Sirik area had come under a military attack. According to the original report, the claimed Bahrain strike would be Iran’s first known attack on a U.S. military facility in the Middle East in two months.