Bahrain condemns Iranian drone attack after overnight US strikes

Bahrain said it was attacked by Iran with a wave of drones on Saturday, apparently in response to overnight US strikes on Iran . A ship in the strait of Hormuz was also attacked. Bahrain’s foreign ministry said a “number of drones” were launched at the country, though there were no immediate reports of damage. It condemned the attack and described it as a “flagrant threat to the security of citizens and residents”. No damage or casualties were reported in the attack on a tanker in the strait of Hormuz. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but Iran was suspected to be behind it. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said earlier on Saturday that it had targeted several sites of the “US terrorist army in the region”, without specifying where. Bahrain is home to the US navy’s fifth fleet. The strikes came after the US military said it struck Iranian missile and drone locations overnight, as well as coastal radar sites, in what it said was a response to an Iranian drone attack on a ship in the strait of Hormuz. The tit-for-tat strikes marked the first incidence of violence between the US and Iran since a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the two countries last week. The MOU – the first of its kind signed by the US and Iran since the latter’s 1979 Islamic revolution – extended a fragile ceasefire and set a 60-day window for talks to achieve a lasting peace. …