Kuwait said on Saturday Iran struck another of its power and water plants, leading to the deactivation of several power-generation units, a day after a similar attack.
“Another electricity and water distillation plant was targeted by a hostile attack that led to a fire erupting in one of the plant’s components,” which resulted in the deactivation of some power generation units, the ministry of electricity and water said.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said that two oil tankers directed by “deceptive American intelligence agencies” exploded after hitting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, which the US military quickly denied.
It also said on state television that four ships trying to transit the critical waterway had been “stopped”.
Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a senior military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said Tehran will resume “full-scale offensive operations” if US strikes against it continue for another two or three days.
“Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses… and no political border will be safe,” Rezaei said, according to the Iranian news agency Irib.
US forces reported striking Iran with attacks designed to “continue degrading Iranian military capabilities”, according to a statement on X by US Central Command.
In the biggest escalation since the foes resumed hostilities, Iran accused US forces of targeting civilian infrastructure, including an airport, a railway station and two bridges, and said it had struck US assets across the region.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to hit Iranian infrastructure, but there was no confirmation from the US side on Friday that US forces have begun to do so.
Iranian authorities said the supply of drinking water to several villages in the south had been cut off, accusing the US of launching missiles that “struck the power facilities and desalination plant pumps located at the Bonji village pier”, according to the Tasnim news agency.
Iranian state news agency Irna reported on Saturday that US attacks killed three people and wounded eight in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan.
In Jordan, fuel tanks at the Al-Azraq base were also targeted, the state broadcaster said on Telegram.
Bahrain’s army said its air defences repelled on Saturday a wave of Iranian attacks, with blasts being heard in Manama after sirens sounded.
The Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain was also targeted, the Iranian army said, adding that it “is “one of the most important operational and logistical centres” for the US military in the region.
Jordan’s army said it had shot down 10 Iranian missiles with no casualties or damage, while Bahrain’s interior ministry said air raid sirens were sounded.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it had targeted US radar systems and military aircraft in Qatar to “punish the aggressor”, with Doha saying it had intercepted a missile attack, as well as attacked two US radar sites in Oman and the Al-Tanf military base in Syria.
In Iraq’s Kurdistan region, drone and rocket strikes killed nine members of an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group on Friday, the exiled Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan said, blaming the attack on Iran. (AFP)
