On July 12, 2026, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps alleged that it had struck American HIMARS missile launchers positioned in Kuwait. The account, reported by Yeni Şafak from a statement carried by the semi-official Fars News Agency, was not immediately confirmed by either US or Kuwaiti authorities.
The IRGC described the action as a targeted drone operation. It asserted that the launchers and associated pods had been prepared for attacks against Iran before they were destroyed. The Iranian force also referred to unofficial casualty reports claiming that three US officers died and several other people were injured. No immediate statement from Washington substantiated either the damage or casualty figures.
Türkiye Today separately reported the central Iranian claim, characterizing the alleged operation as part of widening retaliatory strikes across the Gulf. The available accounts did not provide an independent assessment of the targeted equipment, its condition after the reported attack or the identities of any alleged casualties.
Separate attacks acknowledged by Kuwait
Kuwait’s government did report assaults elsewhere in the country on the same Sunday, according to Yeni Şafak. Officials said three land border posts in northern Kuwait and an offshore drilling platform operated by Kuwait Oil Company had been attacked. Those incidents caused material damage, while one worker was injured. Kuwaiti officials did not identify who carried out those strikes, and their acknowledgment did not confirm the IRGC’s separate assertion about American rocket launchers.
The Iranian statement connected its claimed action to earlier US attacks. According to the IRGC’s account, short-range HIMARS missiles operated by the United States had hit several sites along Iran’s southern coastline during recent operations and during the broader US-Israeli offensive that it said began in late February. That description of prior attacks came from the Iranian force and was not accompanied in the cited reporting by an immediate American response.
Yeni Şafak placed the allegation within a conflict then entering its third month, describing repeated exchanges across the region. The report said Iran had targeted American military assets and US allies in retaliation for Washington’s attacks on Iranian nuclear and military facilities. Türkiye Today likewise framed the claimed Kuwait operation as an expansion of Iranian retaliatory activity in the Gulf.
The reports therefore presented two distinct sets of claims: an unverified IRGC account concerning US HIMARS systems and American personnel, and a Kuwaiti acknowledgment of damage at border and offshore facilities without an attribution of responsibility. On the evidence available in the cited coverage, no Kuwaiti or American authority had immediately linked the acknowledged assaults to the alleged destruction of the launchers.
