Iran’s armed forces announced on Wednesday that they had launched a new wave of drone and missile attacks against US military facilities in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, describing the operation as the 21st phase of retaliatory strikes for what they termed repeated American aggression on Iranian territory. According to statements carried by the semi-official Tasnim and Fars news agencies, the attacks targeted ammunition warehouses and logistical equipment at the US ground forces command centre at Camp al-Doha in western Kuwait, a storage site at the al-Azraq airbase in Jordan, and a maintenance hangar at Sheikh Isa airbase in Bahrain. The Iranian military also claimed to have struck an Amazon Web Services data centre in Bahrain, which it characterised as a key node for intelligence processing and information exchange with US Central Command.

Jordanian armed forces offered a contrasting account, stating that air defence systems had shot down four missiles while two others fell in remote, uninhabited areas without causing casualties or material damage. US Central Command has not issued a public assessment of the reported strikes, though it confirmed earlier on Wednesday that American forces had completed an eleventh consecutive round of strikes on Iranian targets. President Donald Trump has threatened a “total offensive” against Iran while simultaneously requesting supplemental funding from Congress, and has asserted that Iran is seeking to resume negotiations—a claim Tehran has not publicly corroborated.

The attacks widen the geographical footprint of a conflict that is increasingly drawing in Gulf states hosting US military infrastructure. The targeting of a commercial data centre in Bahrain, which Iran’s military described as “the main artery for intelligence processing of Washington and its allies in the Persian Gulf,” signals an effort to disrupt digital command-and-control networks beyond traditional military sites. The strikes also follow Trump’s threat to hit a suspected new nuclear facility at Pickaxe Mountain and reports, cited by the Wall Street Journal, that Iran has moved thousands of centrifuges into tunnels beneath the mountain, with Israel said to have shared related intelligence with Washington.

The current cycle of hostilities began with a US-Israeli military operation against Iran in late February 2026. A ceasefire and memorandum of understanding signed in mid-June collapsed within eleven days, and both sides have since resumed large-scale strikes. Viewed from Tehran, the attacks on regional bases are a calibrated response to operations launched from those facilities. In parallel, Iranian and Pakistani officials met in Islamabad to discuss de-escalation and security cooperation, indicating that diplomatic channels remain active. The US Congress is expected to take up the administration’s funding request, while no formal session of the UN Security Council on the renewed fighting has yet been scheduled.