Hardline Iranian news channels are heavily promoting footage of retaliatory drone strikes against US military bases in Iraq and Kuwait, claiming multiple American casualties and the destruction of a US support base.
Following unprecedented United States and Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military infrastructure and the ascension of Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Leader, hardline Iranian state and semi-official media channels are aggressively promoting retaliatory attacks against American and Israeli targets across the Middle East.
The highly hardline IRGC News Channel published images of six American military personnel who it states were killed in a downed refueling plane in western Iraq. Expanding on the regional retaliation, the channel released a satellite image displaying the destruction of a support base of the terrorist American army in Kuwait. These reports coincide with recent IRGC threats to ignite Middle Eastern energy infrastructure and the subsequent halt of Kuwaiti oil production amid spiking global prices.
State-aligned news aggregator Akharin Khabar corroborated the Kuwait claims, distributing images depicting the destruction of the Kuwait-based support base of the terrorist American army. The post also featured photos of a targeted gathering location for officers of the child-killing Zionist regime army in Tel Aviv.
Multiple channels focused heavily on an apparent coordinated drone attack targeting Camp Victory near Baghdad International Airport. The conservative Vatan-e Emrooz newspaper shared video footage of an FPV drone attack on the installation, declaring that the United States air defense system failed in intercepting the drone. Akharin Khabar also circulated this exclusive NINA footage, reiterating the total failure of US defense systems.
The IRGC News Channel provided further details on the Baghdad attack, sharing footage of drones freely entering Camp Victory, searching for targets, and capturing the exact moment of impact. The channel also posted a video, backed by reports from Yemeni resistance forces, showing the precise strike of two Iraqi resistance drones on the American military facility.
The sources exhibit highly coordinated messaging typical of Iranian state-aligned and IRGC-affiliated channels during periods of conflict. The reporting heavily utilizes intensely loaded terminology, which has been preserved in the digest to reflect the channels' original framing and posture accurately. Claims of US casualties and base destructions appear uniformly across these channels as part of a broader retaliatory narrative following the recent allied strikes on Iran.