Sirens sounded for the second time in Bahrain on Thursday, the Bahraini Interior Ministry announced. The Bahrain News Agency, Bahrain’s state media, attributed the sirens to Iranian missiles.
Sirens also sounded in Kuwait, where the Defense Ministry reported that the country’s air defenses “are confronting rocket and drone attacks.”
At the same time, Reuters reported that an elevated security warning was sent to mobile phones in Qatar. An all clear was sent out within 10 minutes, noting that “a threat had been eliminated.”
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf claimed the strikes on the Gulf states were in response to American attacks on southern Iran earlier on Thursday.
“America still hasn’t learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free. Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you’ll get hit,” he said in a post on X.
“Don’t flail around pointlessly, or you’ll sink even deeper: the Strait of Hormuz will only open with ‘Iranian arrangements,’ not American threats,” Ghalibaf added.