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Iran said Saturday its navy launched a wave of drone attacks targeting Israel as well as United States bases in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, as the regional war entered its second week.
“The Iranian Navy targeted American bases and occupied territories with a massive wave of drone attacks,” the army said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency.
According to the statement, the targets included the Al Minhad base in the UAE and another U.S. base in Kuwait, as well as what it described as a “strategic facility” in Israel.
Iran has launched missiles and drones toward Israel and Gulf countries hosting U.S. military assets since Feb. 28. Some of the attacks have caused casualties and damage to civilian sites, including ports and residential buildings.
Tehran says the attacks are in response to a U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran that has killed hundreds of people, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several senior military officials.
Meanwhile, Israel’s military said more than 80 fighter jets carried out a wave of strikes on Iranian military sites, missile launchers and other targets in Tehran and central Iran on Saturday.
“Over 80 Israeli Air Force fighter jets... completed an additional wave of strikes targeting infrastructure belonging to the Iranian terror regime,” the military said in a statement.
In one of the largest raids announced by Israel since the war began on Feb. 28, the statement said the jets struck a military academy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that “was being used as an emergency asset.”
The Israeli military said the facility was being used for military operations, making it “a lawful military objective.”
Other targets included an underground command center, missile storage facilities and launch sites “in order to reduce the scope of fire directed at the territory of the State of Israel,” the statement said.
When Israel joined the United States in a large wave of strikes on Iran at the beginning of the war, the Israeli military said 200 fighter jets participated in the operation, calling it the largest air raid in the country’s history.
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