{"id":197548,"date":"2026-07-09T04:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/197548\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:50:24","slug":"sirens-sound-in-gulf-states-following-us-attack-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/197548\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirens sound in Gulf states following US attack on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sirens sounded for\u00a0the second time in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/bahrain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bahrain<\/a> on Thursday, the Bahraini Interior Ministry announced. The Bahrain News Agency, Bahrain&#8217;s state media, attributed the sirens to Iranian missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Sirens also sounded in Kuwait, where the Defense Ministry reported that the country&#8217;s air defenses &#8220;are confronting rocket and drone attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;a threat had been eliminated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf claimed the strikes on the Gulf states were in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-901937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American attacks<\/a> on southern Iran earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;America still hasn\u2019t learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free. Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you\u2019ll get hit,&#8221; he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Don\u2019t flail around pointlessly, or you\u2019ll sink even deeper: the Strait of Hormuz will only open with &#8216;Iranian arrangements,&#8217; not American threats,&#8221; Ghalibaf added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sirens sounded for\u00a0the second time in\u00a0Bahrain on Thursday, the Bahraini Interior Ministry announced. The Bahrain News Agency, Bahrain&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[270,2382,714,34,905,424,35,271,906],"class_list":["post-197548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-bahrain","tag-defense-industry","tag-gulf-states","tag-iran","tag-iran-missiles","tag-irgc","tag-kuwait","tag-qatar","tag-sirens"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116888222036802809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}