{"id":276225,"date":"2026-09-03T06:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/276225\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:36:10","slug":"iran-targets-us-bases-in-kuwait-despite-warnings-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/276225\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran targets US bases in Kuwait despite warnings from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iran attacked US military bases in Kuwait on Thursday, despite US President Donald Trump threatening further strikes in a fresh flare-up six months into the war.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump said his military was prepared to attack Iran \u201cany time we want\u201d after extensive US bombardment of sites across the country left at least 19 Iranians dead.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tehran retaliated by hitting US military targets across the Middle East, including in Kuwait, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Iraq\u2019s autonomous Kurdistan region.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The clashes deepen the ongoing impasse in the war, as Iran maintains a stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz oil export route and the US presses its counter-blockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Security chief Mohsen Rezaei warned the United States that Iran had adopted a \u201cnew strategy\u201d in the war that \u201cwill shatter your foundations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kuwait\u2019s army said Thursday it was intercepting a missile and drone attack from Iran, with Iranian state TV confirming that Tehran was targeting US bases in the Gulf state \u201cin response to America\u2019s crimes against the Iranian people\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran attacked US military bases in Kuwait on Thursday, despite US President Donald Trump threatening further strikes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[75200,89,270,141,5826,38,75359,34,94,37,654,75201,35,5346,9812],"class_list":["post-276225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-ali-mallahi","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-bahrain","tag-centcom","tag-chris-wright","tag-donald-trump","tag-hossein-moazami","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-jordan","tag-kuhestak","tag-kuwait","tag-mohammad-bagher-ghalibaf","tag-mohsen-rezaei"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117205728159704391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276225","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=276225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}