Iran targets US allies in Gulf after overnight attacks, and other Mideast news

Iran targeted Gulf allies of the United States on Wednesday, firing drones at Kuwait and Bahrain after a night of U.S. Iranian officials said one of the U.S. strikes on the country overnight struck a wedding party, leaving at least five people dead and dozens wounded.

Iran’s government spokesperson, Fatemeh Mohajerani, described the attack as a crime. and Iran has increased this week after the U.S. hit Iranian rocket launchers on an island in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, saying Iran was planning to use them to shoot mines into the waterway.

Iran retaliated by firing missiles at American bases in Jordan, which were all intercepted. Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. US strike hits a wedding party The U.S.

Central Command said Tuesday’s strikes focused on Iranian military targets including air defense sites, radar systems and maritime assets. strike hit a home hosting a wedding in Kuhestak, a small town on the coast overlooking the Strait of Hormuz. At least five people were killed, including a 4-year-old and a 16-year-old, the state news agency IRNA reported, and at least 68 people were wounded.

military said it was aware of the report but that it “never targets civilians.” Footage from the Iranian Red Crescent showed rescue workers entering a damaged home in the wake of the strike, with debris scattered all around and a hole in the roof of one house in a neighborhood of densely packed homes. “Make no mistake: these crimes will not go unpunished,” Ebrahim Azizi, chairperson of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on X. Iran targets US allies in the Gulf Bahrain said its air defense systems intercepted several Iranian air attacks early Wednesday, without providing further details.

In a statement, the Bahrain Defense Force accused Iran of “persisting in its systematic hostile approach through its heinous attacks targeting civilians in the Kingdom of Bahrain.” Iranian state media said Iran’s military had launched drone attacks on U.S. bases in Bahrain and in the United Arab Emirates in response to the overnight attacks. Kuwait’s government communications center said a fire broke out at a residential complex in the capital after it was hit by an…