The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps also announced on Friday, 26 Tir 1405 in statements that, in retaliation for U.S. attacks, it attacked the country’s bases in Oman, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, and Syria.

In line with remarks by military and security officials in Iran, the pulpits of Friday prayer leaders echoed and endorsed these statements. In Islamabad West, “Ahmad Zarai” said in the Friday prayer sermons: “The enemy today has launched attacks with all its power, but the army and the IRGC are giving America a historic lesson. If they hit Bandar Abbas, then we will also plow Bahrain, Kuwait, and the UAE, and for the first time, the fighters delivered a decisive blow to U.S. bases in Syria.”