Iran launched a drone attack on a US military base in Bahrain on Sunday — the second strike in three days — and the only question worth asking is why American soldiers are sitting in a Gulf kingdom as targets for a war that serves no clear US interest.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it sent six drones targeting US air defence radar at the Al-Rifaa helicopter base in Bahrain. Bahrain's military said its air defences intercepted and destroyed the attacks before they reached their targets. Two days earlier, the IRGC claimed it struck a US early-warning radar facility in the same country; the US military denied that strike caused any damage, saying two one-way attack drones were shot down by American forces with no injuries reported.
Bahrain is home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet — a fact both outlets mention but neither questions. The BBC frames the confrontation as a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of the world's oil and gas flows. Iran insists it controls the strait and attacks what it calls
