Iran launches fresh attacks on US Gulf allies as war escalates following ceasefire collapse

Iran launched more attacks on Washington’s Gulf allies and Jordan on Saturday, after a seventh straight night of US strikes on Iranian military targets, escalating the war one week after a ceasefire collapsed. Kuwait came under sustained attack, with a desalination plant hit and operations at Kuwait International Airport suspended due to repeated missile and drone threats. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had struck a US military support centre at Camp Arifjan and destroyed a radar facility at Ali Al Salem Air Base.

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation later said one of its oil facilities had been hit in “repeated Iranian attacks,” causing significant damage and some injuries, according to the state news agency. Kuwait’s armed forces said they had intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles and drones early on Saturday, adding that a number of firefighters and oil sector workers had been injured while responding to the attacks. Iran was responding to US attacks on bridges, power facilities, and other infrastructure. The IRGC warned US allies in the region to expect more strikes, stating: “Since there is no international institution to prevent the savagery of the US military, we have no path before us except the Quranic command: Whoever attacks you, attack them in the same manner.”

Iran’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that 50 people had been killed and more than 500 injured in US strikes over the past three weeks. The IRGC also targeted a site in Bahrain where US combat aircraft were gathered at Sheikh Isa Air Base and an intelligence data centre, according to Iranian state media. The Guards said they had destroyed at least two US fighter aircraft and three other aircraft during a missile and drone attack early on Saturday on the US base in Al Azraq, Jordan.

Iran also launched attacks on Saudi Arabia for the first time in about a month, triggering early warning alarms in Al-Kharj, east of the capital Riyadh, and at Yanbu on the kingdom’s Red Sea coast. One attack targeted the Prince Sultan Air Base in Al-Kharj, which hosts US forces. Oil prices rose more than 4% on Friday to their highest level in more than a month, adding to political pressure on President Donald Trump. Both sides took aim at shipping traffic, with the US enforcing a naval blockade while Iran targeted vessels that violated its rules on navigating the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian media reported that several missiles had struck power facilities and desalination pumps in the southern city of Jask, leaving some 10,000 people in 20 villages without water. Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry said Iran’s targeting of vital infrastructure endangered civilians and violated international law.