Iran launches fresh strikes after rejecting report of US deal– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Iran claimed responsibility for new attacks in the Middle East on Friday, after denying reports that a new peace deal from the United States was delivered to, and rejected by, it.
Tehran targeted strikes on U.S. assets in Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait, according to Iran. The drone strikes targeted Bahrain’s Sheikh Isa Air Base and Jordan’s Al-Azraq Air Base, according to Iran’s Press TV. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted the control tower of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, according to the semi-official agency Tasnim. The Revolutionary Guard also targeted three ammunition and equipment storage facilities at Kuwait’s Al-Adairi Base, Tasnim said.
The development comes after the U.S. carried out a 13th consecutive night of strikes on Iran on Thursday, targeting the country’s drone sites, command centers, and other targets “to further diminish the threat Iran poses to civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
It also comes after the New York Times reported that a new U.S. peace proposal was delivered to Iran by Iraq. Both Iran and Iraq rejected the reporting. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi said the details “bear no relation to reality” and called on all media outlets to “refrain from circulating unverified information or information attributed to anonymous sources.”
Tehran called it “misleading,” according to Iranian state media IRNA.
