Iran claims it destroyed a US radar in Bahrain — but the US says it shot down two Iranian drones with no damage. Two sharply different accounts of Friday morning in the Gulf, and both cannot be true.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard says its aerospace force targeted an American early-warning radar in Bahrain in retaliation for an enemy air attack on a telecommunications tower in the port city of Sirik, in southern Iran, on Thursday. The Guard called the strike a serious warning and warned of an unlimited confrontation if attacks continue. Iran's navy also claimed a liquefied natural gas tanker hit a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz — a claim that, like the radar strike, has not been independently confirmed.
Washington tells a very different story. US Central Command said the Guard launched two one-way attack drones toward Bahrain and that American forces shot both down, with no casualties and no damage. The command explicitly rejected the claim that any radar was hit. Bahrain, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, has not commented.
The exchange comes a day after President Donald Trump said the United States does not need a deal with Iran and pulled Vice President JD Vance off the negotiations. Vance had led months of diplomacy, including a memorandum of understanding in June that collapsed within weeks. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Iran's demands, including reparations for the war, absurd. Special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are now the main negotiators. With around a fifth of the world's seaborne oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the stakes reach far beyond the Gulf.
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