September 3, 2026

As fresh hostilities between Tehran and Washington spilled over across the region, US military bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq came under intensified retaliatory attacks, following reported casualties in Iran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Wednesday that the United States' "catalogue of atrocities against Iran was now complete", citing an attack on a residential home in Sirik where families were celebrating a wedding.

More than 50 people were killed and wounded, he said, adding that the "cruelty cannot be separated from the chain of atrocities that preceded it in Minab, Lamerd, Qeshm and elsewhere, nor from the strikes on military targets that were dressed in deceptive justifications".

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