Trump’s Bandar Abbas strike backfires as IRGC retaliation triggers Kuwait panic?

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has claimed a pre‑dawn missile strike on a U.S. air base in retaliation for an earlier American attack near Bandar Abbas, calling it a “serious warning” that any new aggression will draw harsher blows. As Kuwait scrambles air defences against “hostile” missile and drone threats, fear is surging across the Gulf and the battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz has burst back into the open.