Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said on the 8th on social media that air-defense
sirens had been activated and urged residents to remain calm and move to the
nearest safe location. The ministry had issued an earlier air-defense alert the
same day. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps public relations said on the
8th it had “destroyed” 85 significant US military facilities in the Middle East,
including the US Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain.