{"id":770902,"date":"2026-07-18T21:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770902\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T21:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:26:21","slug":"iran-warns-people-should-stay-away-from-us-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770902\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran warns ‘people should stay away from US bases’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran\u2019s official state broadcaster warned people to \u201cstay away\u201d from American military bases on Saturday as Tehran escalated its attacks in the Gulf region<\/a> and formally suspended its commitment to the US-Iran memorandum of understanding it had violated from the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn response to US acts of aggression and threats from terrorist groups, Iran has launched missile strikes targeting Sulaymaniyah (Iraq) and Bahrain,\u201d Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting claimed. \u201cPeople should stay away from US bases.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to remain safe from Iran\u2019s missiles, summon your #courage and assert your #independence, and shut down U.S. military bases on your territory,\u201d it added, encouraging US allies in the region to abandon Washington.<\/p>\n

A screen grab taken from video footage released on July 16, 2026 by Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)\u2019s Sepah News website shows a missile being launched from an undisclosed location towards US targets in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain. SEPAHNEWS.COM\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Iran has launched missile and drone strikes<\/a> against American military facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, since Friday night, while also hitting Saudi infrastructure and sites in Iraq.<\/p>\n

US Central Command declined to provide an assessment of damages, but on Friday told The Post \u201cUS forces in the region remain fully operational.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tehran also targeted Kuwaiti oil, power and water desalination facilities, escalating its bombing campaign to include critical civilian infrastructure alongside military targets.<\/p>\n

Tehran has claimed the strikes came in retaliation for the US hitting civilian targets in Iran over the past eight days of strikes \u2014 but White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told The Post that the US was only striking military targets in Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States Military has carried out strikes exclusively on military targets, including military logistics infrastructure,\u201d she said. \u201cIn contrast, the Iranian regime has intentionally targeted civilian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and lashed out against its neighbors who have no role in this conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump will not allow these acts of terrorism to continue unanswered, which is why he has directed CENTCOM to degrade Iran\u2019s ability to carry out these attacks and hold the regime accountable,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

It comes a week after the US launched its daily campaign of strikes on the regime\u2019s targets, which is expected to continue into next week, a source familiar with military planning told The Post.<\/p>\n

A satellite image shows smoke billowing near an oil facility in Kuwait. via REUTERS<\/p>\n

President Trump also threatened Wednesday to begin attacking Iranian energy infrastructure<\/a> if Tehran doesn\u2019t come to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mohsen Rezaei \u2014 an adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei \u2014 on Friday claimed that \u201cif US strikes continue for several more days, we will move into a phase of full-scale offensive operations.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi on Saturday said Iran had \u201csuspended our commitments\u201d to the MOU with the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not implementing them, and we are busy defending the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

An infographic titled \u201cUS strikes on Iran and Iran\u00e2s retaliatory attacks\u201d created in Ankara, Turkiye on July 17, 2026. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the attacks are a response\u00a0to what it said was \u201cAmerican aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n

IRGC-affiliated media claimed the United States carried out three military strikes near Sirik in Hormozgan Province on Saturday, but the claims have not yet been independently verified\u00a0and CENTCOM did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Foundation for Defending Democracies\u2019 Iran program director Behnam Ben told The Post \u201cwe should not be shocked to hear and see that Tehran is expanding its terrorism to the skies of its neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Islamic Republic started this latest round of violence in the region and is now struggling to explain away its embrace of a scorched-earth policy against its neighbors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s armed forces said they intercepted a number of missiles and drones that entered the kingdom\u2019s airspace, adding that the military acted to protect the country\u2019s sovereignty and the safety of its citizens.<\/p>\n

Kuwaiti authorities reported damage to infrastructure, including power and desalination facilities, while emphasizing that emergency services were responding and working to restore affected services.<\/p>\n

Iranian professor Mohammad Marandi\u00a0\u2014 who has ties to the regime \u2014\u00a0on Saturday said that \u201cIf Trump continues to strike civilian targets, the UAE will be next\u201d \u2014 despite the White House denying that claim.<\/p>\n

Taleblu argued it is Tehran that\u2019s attacking civilian\u00a0infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the regime\u2019s latest agitprop and gaslighting of the Arab publics it is firing upon, it is trying to frame its attacks as being just on US bases,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut falling debris and attacks on infrastructure as well as on military facilities where other Arab armies are co-located tell a drastically different story.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s official state broadcaster warned people to \u201cstay away\u201d from American military bases on Saturday as Tehran escalated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[193250,23,801,4379,3,153670,21,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":["post-770902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-airstrikes","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-news","tag-tehran","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}