\nIran launched more \u200battacks on Washington\u2019s Gulf allies on Saturday after a seventh straight night of US strikes targeting Iranian military sites, including logistics facilities, escalating the \u200cwar one week after a ceasefire fell apart.
\nKuwait came under sustained attack, with a desalination plant hit and operations at Kuwait International Airport suspended due to repeated missile and drone threats.
\nIran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it struck a US military support centre at Camp Arifjan and destroyed a radar facility at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait.
\nThe IRGC also targeted a site in Bahrain \u200bwhere US combat aircraft were gathered at Sheikh Isa Air Base and an intelligence data centre, Iranian state media reported.
\nThe Guards said they had also destroyed \u200bat least two US fighter aircraft and three other aircraft during a missile and drone attack early on Saturday on the US base in Al Azraq, Jordan, according to Iranian state TV.<\/p>\n
Oil prices at highest in more than a month
\n\u201cSince there is \u200bno international institution to prevent the savagery of the US military, we have no path before us except the Quranic command: \u2018Whoever attacks you, attack them in the same manner\u2019,\u201d \u200bthe IRGC said in a statement warning US allies in the region to expect more strikes.
\nOn Friday, both sides took aim at shipping traffic, with the US saying it was enforcing a naval blockade while Iran said it targeted vessels that violated its rules on navigating the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway for one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil supply.
\nOil prices climbed more than 4% on Friday \u200bto their highest level in more than a month, applying political pressure on US President Donald Trump as his Republican Party tries to hold on to power in November \u200bcongressional elections.<\/p>\n
Desalination facilities hit in Iran and Kuwait
\nWashington and Tehran have been testing the limits of escalation since their ceasefire agreement collapsed last week, raising the prospect of a return to \u200call-out war.
\nCivilian infrastructure \u2060was increasingly being subjected to attack despite concerns about potential war crimes.
\nIranian media reported that several missiles struck power facilities and desalination pumps in the southern city of Jask on Saturday, citing a local official. Some 10,000 people in 20 villages were without water, Tasnim news agency reported.
\nA power generation and water desalination plant in Kuwait was hit in an Iranian attack, the country\u2019s Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy Ministry said in a statement. It was the second attack on Kuwaiti water desalination sites in two days.
\nThe US \u200bmilitary\u2019s Central Command said earlier it concluded \u200bits seventh consecutive day of strikes \u2060by hitting Iranian surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage and maritime capabilities.<\/p>\n
Guterres concerned about attacks on infrastructure
\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was concerned about escalation in the conflict, particularly \u201cattacks on civilian infrastructure in Iran and across the region\u201d, his spokesperson said on \u200bFriday.
\nIranian media reported strikes early on Saturday in Hormozgan Province on the Strait of Hormuz. State TV said three people \u200bwere killed and eight wounded \u2060while two bridges and a road tunnel were damaged.
\nA day earlier, Iranian state media said US strikes hit at least five bridges in the south. Seven people were reported killed in attacks on bridges in the southern port of Bandar Khamir, where a train station was also hit. An airport was reported hit further east in Iranshahr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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