Revolutionary Guard claims to have destroyed American radar in Bahrain

A Iranian Islamic Revolution Guard announced today that it destroyed an American early warning radar system in Bahrain, an unconfirmed attack by either the United States or Bahrain.

Bases and equipment in Bahrain have been attacked several times in recent months during the Middle East war, triggered in late February by attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran.

“A few hours ago, fighters from the Revolutionary Guard Aerospace Force attacked and destroyed the early warning radar of American aggressors on Bahrain Island in response to the enemy’s aerial assault on a telecommunications tower in Sirik,” a port city in southern Iran reported Iranian force in a statement released by state television.

“ This is a serious warning to the aggressor enemy to put an end to air provocations and oil smuggling in the Strait of Ormuz,” the text added.

The U.S. Central Command for the Middle East reported in October that it helped the Gulf countries export 1.5 billion barrels of oil since the summer, through the Strait of Ormuz, a strategic maritime route through which one fifth of the world's hydrocarbons were transiting before the war.

Tehran claims control of the sea way.

In response, the United States has imposed a blockade on Iranian ports and has escorted oil tankers along the route.