[Regnum] Iran carried out its most powerful attack on Israeli territory, using super-heavy ballistic missiles. This was announced on March 13 by General Majid Mousavi, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGC Aerospace Force).
"Thirty super-heavy ballistic missiles, weighing between one and two tons, were launched at specific targets in the occupied territories. This operation disrupted and destroyed the [Israeli] regime's critical aerial surveillance systems. This was the regime's most powerful combat attack. Now another part of the sky is under our control," Mousavi wrote on social media.
On the morning of February 28, Israel and the United States launched military operations against Iran. According to Iranian estimates, the strikes injured more than 15,000 civilians.
In response, Iran launched a large-scale operation using missiles and drones. Missile strikes targeted American military bases in Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain, and Jordan. A CIA compound in the UAE was attacked. On March 10, Spiegel magazine reported that Iran launched a missile strike on German military facilities at the multinational Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan.
On March 11, the IRGC reported that Iran had struck US positions with new Khorramshahr 4 missiles with a 2-ton warhead.
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Iran suffered its first missile attack from Bahrain, media reports
A missile strike on Iran was launched from Bahrain, marking the first recorded attack on the Islamic Republic from a Persian Gulf country. This was reported by The New York Times, citing verified video.
The authors noted that the video alone makes it unclear whether the missiles were fired by the US or the Bahraini military. Iran frequently accuses Gulf states of allowing their territory to be used as a launch pad for American attacks, the publication explained.
"Video confirmed by The New York Times shows ballistic missiles launched from Bahrain on March 7 toward Iran, in what appears to be the first confirmed attack since the military operation began," the newspaper concluded.
As experts explained, the launcher for the first missile is hidden behind a building, but when the second missile takes off, its trajectory points to a second launcher located nearby. According to Wes J. Bryant, a former US Air Force national security analyst, and Fabian Hoffman, a missile specialist at the University of Oslo, this is a US-made M142 HIMARS truck.
The US Navy's Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain. However, the government has not officially commented on the matter. The publication stated that Iran launched over 100 missiles and 191 drones at Bahrain.