Iran’s military says it launched missile strikes on a United States military base in Kuwait early Tuesday, as tensions between Tehran and Washington continued to escalate.
According to Iran’s state news agency IRNA, the army said its ground forces fired surface-to-surface missiles at HIMARS missile systems stationed at Camp Arifjan, a major US military installation located south of Kuwait City.
“The army’s ground forces targeted the HIMARS missile systems of the US terrorist army stationed at the Arifjan base in Kuwait with surface-to-surface missiles,” IRNA quoted military officials as saying.
The military said the attack was aimed at degrading the United States’ offensive missile capabilities, arguing that HIMARS launchers play a key role in combat operations.
“HIMARS is a mobile missile system with the ability to move quickly against ground targets. Targeting it causes damage to the offensive and defensive layers and reduces the enemy’s missile power in aggressive crimes,” the statement said.
The announcement came as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian described the conflict as having escalated into a “full-scale war.”
Camp Arifjan hosts personnel from multiple branches of the US military, including the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
