Iran strikes US bases across five Gulf states
Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it hit US military targets in Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Jordan in a single wave, while Doha and Kuwait said they intercepted many of the missiles as oil prices jumped.
- Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it struck US military sites in five Gulf states in a single coordinated wave: Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Jordan.
- Qatar's Defense Ministry said its air defenses intercepted several ballistic missiles, and Kuwait said it engaged hostile targets that entered its airspace.
- The attack followed US strikes on southwestern Iran, where one person was killed and four wounded in Khuzestan province.
- Oil prices jumped: Brent rose to nearly $79 a barrel, up about 3.9 percent, with WTI around $74.
For a country that imports its gas and oil at prices set by the mood of global markets, every night that US bases in the Gulf come under fire spills over, within days, into pump prices in Serbia and into next winter’s heating bill. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it had struck US military sites in five Gulf states in a single coordinated wave, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Jordan, and Washington’s response, together with its regional allies, will decide how long that anxiety lasts.
The attack came after the collapse of a temporary truce that the United States and Iran had agreed in early July, and after a fresh round of US strikes on southwestern Iran. Iranian state media reported that one person was killed and four wounded in Khuzestan province, and Tehran framed the retaliation squarely as an answer to those strikes.
Five targets in one night
According to the Fars agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guard, the targets were carefully chosen military points rather than cities. In Kuwait, the reported targets were a Patriot air-defense system, an ammunition depot and a radar site; at Oman’s Port of Duqm, refueling platforms used by aircraft carriers; in Bahrain, a communications facility and a radar site; and at Jordan’s Prince Hassan air base, a command center and hangars for MQ-9 drones. The focus on infrastructure rather than populated areas fits Iran’s familiar pattern of measured escalation, forceful enough to send a message, limited enough to leave room to step back.
Official responses were swift and restrained. Qatar’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses had intercepted several ballistic missiles, while Kuwait’s armed forces said they had engaged hostile aerial targets that entered the country’s airspace. Doha and Kuwait, two capitals that host US bases while keeping a diplomatic channel open to Tehran, once again found themselves in the role they least want, caught in the line of fire of someone else’s war.
What does this wave mean for energy prices in Serbia?
Markets reacted at once. Oil prices climbed after the attack, with Brent near $79 a barrel and up about 3.9 percent, and WTI around $74, because every new strike near the Strait of Hormuz reminds traders how fragile supply is. The Revolutionary Guard also threatened to close that strait, the narrow chokepoint through which a large share of the world’s oil passes, a move that could turn a local conflict into a global energy shock within hours. For Europe, and therefore for Serbia, that jump is not an abstract number but a signal that winter could grow more expensive if the spiral continues.
Belgrade pays for its energy inside a system where any crisis thousands of kilometers away eventually lands on the household bill, so calm in the Gulf has rarely been such a concrete question of the family budget. For now, both sides still appear to be choosing military targets rather than cities, yet the region’s history shows how thin the line is between a measured reprisal and a war no one planned. Do you believe the Gulf capitals can stay out of the conflict, or is five countries hit in one night a sign that the space for neutrality is steadily narrowing?
