Iran Strikes US Bases in Kuwait and UAE; Israel Warns of 'Desperate Steps'
Iran’s army said it hit satellite systems and aircraft hangars at Kuwait’s Ahmad al-Jaber air base and radar positions at Al Minhad in the UAE with missiles and drones — extending its retaliation to a sixth and seventh Gulf state. Kuwait said its defences intercepted the “blatant Iranian aggression”, though a residential building was damaged. Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz warned economic pressure “may push them to desperate steps” — threatening, if Israel is attacked, to “push Iran deep back into the stone age”.
Tehran’s targeting arithmetic is now explicit: every Gulf monarchy hosting American forces is on the list, and the campaign’s purpose is less to damage than to tax — each intercepted volley spends defenders’ interceptors, frays host-government patience with Washington, and reminds Riyadh and Abu Dhabi that neutrality was cheaper. The residential damage in Kuwait City repeats the war’s defining pattern in reverse: precision claims, civilian consequences. Mr Katz’s intervention matters because Israel has so far stayed at the war’s edge this round; a minister publicly gaming the “collapse of the regime” and threatening the stone age signals Jerusalem positioning for entry, not restraint, five weeks before its own election. Watch the Kheibar Shekan expenditure rate — missile stocks, on both sides, are this war’s true clock.