IRGC claims killing of US-Israeli-linked ‘terror’ team in SE Iran

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced it had dismantled a US- and Israeli-linked “terror” team in Sistan and Baluchestan province, killing two members. The operation involved IRGC ground forces, police, and intelligence units. This comes amid escalating tensions, with Iran claiming missile and drone strikes on US bases in Kuwait and the UAE.

Tehran: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday that its forces had smashed a “terror” team it said was affiliated with the United States and Israel in southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, killing two of its members.

In a statement published on the IRGC’s official news outlet, Sepah News, the Quds Base of the Ground Force of the IRGC said the “terror” team was busted in a joint operation involving its members as well as the provincial police and intelligence forces.

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It said the team had sought to perpetrate “acts of terror” against a series of “pre-determined” targets.

Late last month, the IRGC said its forces dismantled a US- and Israeli-linked “terror” team in the province, killing one of its members and arresting six others, according to Sepah News.

Iran’s Army said on Thursday that its forces had struck US military bases in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait with missiles and kamikaze drones earlier in the day.

In a statement on its website, the army said the strikes were in revenge for the Iranian military personnel and civilians killed in recent US attacks against Iran.

It added that its forces targeted the US Army’s satellite communications systems, equipment warehouses, and a fighter aircraft hangar at the Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait, causing damage to the communications systems and the hangar, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The army said it also struck the US troops and radar systems at the Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE, stressing that its forces’ responses to any attack by the US Army will be “harsh and devastating, and will continue until achieving the ultimate victory and punishing the aggressor.”

On Wednesday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a post on social media platform X that its forces had “successfully completed a wave of strikes against Iranian military targets,” citing “recent attempted attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members.”