Posted on 06/27/2026 5:07:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Iran launched a drone assault targeting Bahrain after overnight airstrikes by the United States.
The attacks across the Persian Gulf show the danger of the Iran war again spinning out of control, even after Iran and the U.S. reached an interim deal to try and agree on a final accord to end the conflict.
The U.S. had launched its airstrikes in response to an Iranian drone attack on a ship trying to get out of the strait on Thursday, continuing a string of attacks that have shaken the uneasy ceasefire in the war.
That Iran targeted Bahrain likely was not coincidental. The kingdom has been one of the strongest critics of Iran and is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. It just hosted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council's foreign ministers, which ended with a call for an end to Iran's attacks and the strait to be completely open.
A statement from Bahrain's Foreign Ministry said a "number of Iranian drones" targeted the country. It called the attack "a flagrant threat to the security of citizens and residents."
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard earlier on Saturday issued a statement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency saying it had targeted several locations "of the U.S. terrorist army in the region." It did not name what areas were targeted.
Gulf allies condemn Iranian strikes on Bahrain
Several countries in the Gulf — all allies of the United States or members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which condemned Iran's actions earlier this week — have voiced support for Bahrain following Iranian drone strikes.
The United Arab Emirates said it "condemned in the strongest terms the hostile drone attacks by Iran that targeted the Kingdom of Bahrain."
Kuwait's foreign ministry said in a statement: "The Ministry affirms that the continuation of these attacks, at a time when regional and international efforts are aimed at de-escalation and reducing tensions, constitutes a serious undermining of peace and stability efforts and a threat to the security and stability of the region."
Egypt wrote that it "stands alongside the Kingdom of Bahrain in confronting anything that threatens its security and territorial integrity."
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And the cluster-schtoop continues.
They haven’t honored one agreement since 1979, why would we expect them to start now. Have the IDF take Kharg Island, shut it down, but don’t destroy it, and just wait. After they come to their senses, restart the island and let the new regime use the funds to rebuild the country.
We seem to be doing a lot of pin-prick, "measured" attacks.
Cannot we just target and flatten the IRGC infrastructure?
Time to get their attention, I guess.
Teheran needs to come down with a bad case of missiles.
CC
CBS anti war news is treasonously spinning out of control. The perpertratiors have jeopardized their rights
Iran hates us with a kind of hate that I can’t fully understand, but I know it’s real, and intense. It seems to me that dealing with such people is impossible.
It’s Muzziedom, been that way for some 14 centuries as it can’t be taught how to live civilly, their hate is inbred.
Fixing it is not possible, it’s gonna take a global civil war and glad I’ll be dead by then.
God bless you!
The IRGC MUST BE ADDRESSED...NOTHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN TIL THAT SAVAGE GROUP...and the last of the Theology Leaders are GONE.
Just smash these savages and be done with it.
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You’re correct. To them, and to Israel, we are in the early phases of Armageddon. Most of us have no comprehension of what that means. There is, as you’ve pointed out, no way to deal with them, as they believe the course has been set and fully blessed by allah. ‘Peace’, as we know it, would require that they abandon their allegiance to their god, and they will absolutely NOT do that.
Which “Iran” is Trump negotiating with?
For goodness sake, stop pussyfooting; destroy the nations’ electrical infrastructure and then promise that water is next. All Iranians must suffer equally for their ever to be the promise of political reform.
Destroy their oil fields and their infrastructure and be done with it. When the people eat the mullahs it will finally stop.
Exactly!
The one that assuages Trump's ego the most? (sarcasm 🤔?)
IMHO there are two issues. One is the ideological hatred by the mullahs and their followers. The other is Iranian arrogance.
Time to flatten their mullahs. Where were these heathens prior to 1979 anyway? I can recall their lackeys handing out leaflets on my campus during my college days.
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