So why would Iran say this? They say it's revenge. A telecommunications tower in Sirik, a coastal town in Iran, was hit by enemy fire a day earlier. Nobody has said who did that. Nobody has even confirmed it happened.
And the Guards have a warning attached. If these attacks keep happening, they say their Aerospace Force is ready to respond without limits.
That's everything we know.
Why this mattersIran hasn't said this about a US military asset in the Gulf since early September.
And that matters, because for weeks, things had actually calmed down. The US and Iran had settled into a fragile lull. The only friction was the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, and Iran hitting tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
So why Bahrain? Because that's where the US Navy's Fifth Fleet is headquartered. An early-warning radar there exists to watch for exactly this kind of attack.
Here's the problem. Both accounts can't be true.
The US says nothing was hit. Iran says a radar was destroyed. So either Iran is lying. Or the US is downplaying a real hit. Or everyone's looking at a radar that still works, somehow reported as rubble on state television.
And it matters which one it is. If Iran is bluffing, it's testing how far a story with no proof can go. If the radar really was damaged, the US has just played down a strike on a major regional base, in a war it keeps saying it doesn't want to restart.
Quick reminder how we got here. This war between the US, Israel and Iran started on 28 February 2026, when a strike killed Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has run the country since.
And there's still a diplomatic track open. Donald Trump has said he's ready to go back to war if Qatar's efforts to get a deal fail. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, says economic pressure on Iran is already working, so there's no need for big military operations right now.
Iran isn't backing down either. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's parliament and its lead negotiator, told Al Jazeera two days ago that the Strait of Hormuz will never go back to how it was before the war. He says the next move is America's.
Israel isn't sitting still. Its security cabinet has ordered the military to step up preparations for a possible attack on Iran, say Israeli media.
And Mohsen Rezaei, Iran's security chief, has a warning of his own. If the US launches another war, he says every base involved, from West Asia to Europe, becomes a target.
Both sides are publicly saying they don't want more war. Both sides are quietly getting ready for one anyway.
Neither Washington nor Manama has said a word about the radar claim. Nobody has said who hit Sirik, or if anyone did.
