{"id":2729,"date":"2026-07-24T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:24:35","slug":"kuwait-and-bahrain-secretly-carried-out-strikes-on-iranian-territory-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/kuwait-and-bahrain-secretly-carried-out-strikes-on-iranian-territory-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait and Bahrain Secretly Carried Out Strikes on Iranian Territory in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, the air forces of Bahrain and Kuwait used fighter jets to strike several Iranian military facilities, including missile and drone storage sites. The newspaper also reports that the United Arab Emirates provided intelligence support for the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes after Iran warned several countries in the region of possible retaliatory attacks following remarks by the commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), General Brad Cooper, who said that several member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), along with Jordan, had participated in military strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this U.S. claim is false, then these countries are obliged to officially deny it,\u201d Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said. He added that otherwise Tehran would \u201cexercise its inherent and legitimate right to self-defense\u201d by launching strikes against U.S. military bases and facilities located in those countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, the air forces of Bahrain and Kuwait used fighter jets to strike several Iranian military facilities, including missile and drone storage sites. The newspaper also reports that the United Arab Emirates provided intelligence support for the operation. The report comes after Iran warned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}