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Iran’s military said it launched missile strikes on a United States military base in Kuwait early Tuesday, as tensions with 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 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,” state news agency IRNA said, quoting the army’s public relations officials.
The military claimed the attack targeted the mobile rocket launchers because of their role in offensive operations, saying the strike was intended to weaken US missile capabilities.
“HIMARS is a mobile missile system with the ability to move quickly against ground targets, which, when targeted, causes damage to the offensive and defensive layers and reduces the enemy’s missile power in aggressive crimes,” it 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 several branches of the US military, including the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
