The US military announced at dawn on Thursday (June 10th) the completion of the latest wave of strikes against Iran, targeting "Iran's military surveillance capabilities, communications systems and air defense sites."
"Units of the U.S. Marines, Air Force and Marine Corps fired precision-guided munitions to strike Iranian targets that posed a threat to U.S. forces and international commercial vessels transiting territorial waters," the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on the X platform.
Trump told Fox News that U.S. forces bombed Iran with 49 Tomahawk missiles in the new wave of bombing at dawn on Thursday Iranian time, and said that if Iran did not accept U.S. conditions to end the three-month-old war, he would "bomb them hard tomorrow evening."
Iran announces attacks against US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain
Iran's armed forces announced at dawn on Thursday that they had carried out attacks against US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.
In response to the US attack on some IRGC units and its coastal positions and the Police and Security Command at Bandar Abbas Airport, the Iranian military said in a statement, "IRGC air force fighters and its naval heroes were able to target and destroy 18 important US military targets at Ali Salem and Ahmed Al Jaber Air Bases (Kuwait), as well as Sheikh Isa Air Base (Bahrain), during two waves of operations."
In turn, Iran's Tasnim news agency announced at dawn on Thursday that an attack was carried out by Iranian military drones on the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
"Following the US military's invasion of the south of the country, Iran's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain was targeted by drone attacks belonging to the Iranian army," the agency said, adding that the targeting was carried out with various types of destructive drones.
In this wave of drone attacks, communications antennas and radar installations of the Patriot system of the Fifth Fleet were targeted, according to Tasnim.
IRGC: Destruction of a large number of US fighter jets
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that its aerospace force targeted with 12 ballistic missiles the positions of US F-35, F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, in addition to important US military facilities at Azraq Air Base in Jordan and its control center.
The IRGC said the attack destroyed those facilities and a large number of U.S. fighter jets.
Iran denies Trump's allegations
Trump told Fox News that Iranian leaders had called him directly on the phone and asked him to stop the wave of U.S. bombing that was underway.
But Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) quickly denied that Iran had asked Trump to stop the bombing, according to the official IRNA news agency, saying that "Trump's claim that Iranian officials contacted him is strongly rejected and constitutes a cover to escape the war."
Iranian television also quoted a senior official as confirming that "US President Donald Trump's false claim about Iranian officials' contact with him is a cover for evading the war."
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