Iran strikes US bases in response to attacks

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Iran strikes US bases in response to attacks

2026-06-10 18:13 Last Updated At：06-11 16:05

Iran said on Wednesday it had struck several military bases of the United States in the region in retaliation for the latest wave of U.S. attacks on Iran, further straining the ceasefire after Iran and Israel traded missile attacks in a recent major escalation.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said Wednesday that it launched a drone attack on the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain in response to the U.S. attacks on southern Iran, adding that it downed a U.S. MQ-9 drone in Iran's Bushehr Province.

The IRGC said it also targeted Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait with drones, as well as four sites at the U.S. al-Azraq base in Jordan using long-range missiles, Iranian media reported.

"In the event of continued hostility, heavier responses are on the way," the IRGC said in a statement.

The U.S. strikes began at 17:00 ET (2100 GMT) Tuesday, according to the U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East.

The command said it struck Iranian air defense, ground control stations and surveillance radar sites near the strait with munitions from the U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter jets.

A series of explosions was reported early Wednesday in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, as well as Qeshm Island and Sirik County, triggering the activation of air defenses, the state-run IRIB news agency said, citing sources.

Meanwhile, the IRGC said that U.S. forces attacked several locations in Jask, Sirik and Qeshm, damaging a telecommunications mast and destroying two water tanks in Sirik.

Hours later, the command said it had completed strikes against Iran, which was confirmed by the IRIB.

The latest wave of U.S. attacks came after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that Tehran had shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz, vowing "very strong, very powerful" response.

However, the IRIB news agency quoted a military source as saying that "no offensive aerial military operation was carried out" over the Strait of Hormuz within the past 24 hours.

China’s steel output rises as raw material prices stabilize: expert

China's major steelmakers have showed stronger production capabilities in August, thanks to stabilized key raw material prices, an industry expert said on Tuesday.

Fu Jing, director of the Metallurgical Industry Information Center, made the remarks on the latest data of steel production in August during an interview with China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing. According to the latest data released by the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), major surveyed steel enterprises produced an average of 1.973 million tonnes of crude steel per day in the first 10 days of August, up 5.8 percent from the previous period.

The daily production of pig iron also experienced a synchronized upward trend, said the CISA.

"Due to high temperatures and rainfalls in summer, downstream demand for construction-related steel has remained relatively weak. Manufacturing steel demand has become more uneven across sectors. However, prices of raw materials, such as iron ore and coke, have structurally stabilized this month. So, the willingness of our steel production enterprises to produce has rebounded," said Fu.

The recovery was also supported by blast furnaces returning to active production after maintenance, directly driving up output of both crude steel and pig iron month on month, she added.