IRGC says reprisal strikes hit US aircraft in Jordan, Qatar as Operation Nasr expands across region

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said it targeted US fighter jets and aerial refueling aircraft stationed in Jordan and Qatar in new waves of retaliatory attacks after Washington used regional bases to strike civilian infrastructure in southern Iran.

In three statements issued on Friday, the IRGC said the latest waves of Operation Nasr 2 were carried out in response to US war crimes committed during overnight attacks on civilian targets in Iran.

One of the statements addressed the Jordanian people, noting that the US military relocated the forward headquarters of US Central Command (CENTCOM) terrorist forces from Qatar to Al Azraq Air Base in Jordan following Iran's strike on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar last year.

The IRGC said the base also hosts dozens of US aerial refueling aircraft and F-35, F-15 and F-16 fighter jets that have been used to launch attacks against Palestine, Iran and Lebanon.

It said US forces again launched attacks from bases in Jordan on Thursday night, striking civilian targets in Bandar Abbas, including bridges, residential neighborhoods and a water pumping station.

US strikes kill 38 across Iran, destroy Chabahar port control tower, bridges

Criminal attacks by the terrorist US Army targeted civilian infrastructure across several Iranian provinces overnight and into Friday.

In response, the IRGC said its forces launched the 14th wave of Operation Nasr 2," firing multiple ballistic missiles and numerous drones at US fighter jets and refueling aircraft stationed in Jordan.

“In response to this act of aggression, the fighters of Islam … targeted US fighter jets and aerial refueling aircraft stationed in Jordan in a two-phase attack using multiple ballistic missiles and numerous drones, resulting in the destruction of several US aerial refueling aircraft and fighter jets and causing serious damage to many more,” said the IRGC.

It also called on the Jordanian people and armed forces to "fulfill their divine duty" by acting against the interests of the "aggressor and anti-Islamic United States" and to remove "the stain of the occupying Americans from beloved Jordan."

The attack against US-run base in Jordan comes as reports indicated that 10 aerial refueling aircraft arrived at the base from Europe on Friday morning, a move observers said suggested that refueling aircraft stationed at the base had been hit during the overnight Iranian strikes.

Targeting US assets in Qatar, warning against attacks on infrastructure

In a separate statement, the IRGC said its forces carried out a heavy and surprise attack on the US Air Base at Al Udeid in Qatar, during which one long-range radar system and several US strategic aerial refueling aircraft were completely destroyed, while several others sustained serious damage.

“The American enemy and the hosts of its bases in the region should know that crossing the red lines and attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure will carry a very harsh and devastating price,” warned the IRGC.

“Should the enemy continue this course, even more crushing responses are on the way—responses that will be remembered in the history of warfare.”

Wave 15 targets Kuwait and anti-Iran groups

In another statement, the IRGC said it launched the 15th wave of Operation Nasr 2 in continued retaliation for the previous night's US war crimes.

The statement said the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force destroyed a HIMARS launcher and its missiles in Kuwait.

It added that missile and drone strikes also hit several positions of US forces and anti-revolutionary groups backed by the United States and Israel, adding that "a large number of anti-revolutionaries and US special forces were sent to hell."

The statement concluded by saying, "Retaliatory operations will continue."

IRGC strikes US command center in Syria, radars in Oman, depots in Kuwait

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launches a surprise attack on the United States’ Special Operations Command Center in Syria’s al-Tanf region in retaliation for a terrorist American strike on a military garrison dormitory.

The statement comes as media reports said missile strikes targeted the headquarters of an anti-Iran Kurdish separatist group in the Zarkwezlah area near Sulaymaniyah Province in Iraq's Kurdistan Region.

Shafaq News, citing an unnamed source, reported that eight members of the group were killed.

The source said rescue teams had been unable to recover the bodies because they were trapped inside caves and rugged mountainous terrain. Several wounded remained at the site, some in critical condition, while the fate of others buried under the rubble was still unknown.

Iran's Health Ministry said earlier on Friday that US attacks had killed 38 people and injured more than 400 since the latest escalation began.

The developments come amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over the Strait of Hormuz, after the United States resumed strikes against Iran despite a Pakistani-mediated memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at ending the war.

US President Donald Trump has also threatened to target Iran's civilian infrastructure, including bridges and power plants. Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed "until further notice" and at least until "the end of US interference in the region."

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