According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, both Bahrain and Kuwait have secretly retaliated against Iran by destroying important targets via airstrikes they flew over Iran. The targeting data came from the UAE.
Here’s the report:
Bahrain and Kuwait secretly sent jets to attack sites inside Iran, their first such direct retaliation against Tehran and an indication of the difficult position Arab states find themselves in as the war grinds on, people familiar with the matter said.
The airstrikes early this month targeted drone- and missile-storage depots, among other military sites, some of the people said. The United Arab Emirates—which attacked Iran multiple times early in the war—provided intelligence on targets and defensive air cover for the strikes in a sign of budding Arab cooperation in confronting Iran, those people said.
Iran for weeks has focused its retaliatory strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait, both of which host American military bases. The two Persian Gulf states have relatively small air forces, armed with U.S. and European jets, but didn’t want to let Tehran continue to hit them with impunity, the people said.
After publication of this article, Kuwait’s ambassador to the U.S. denied that her country struck Iran. “The State of Kuwait has not participated in any military operations against Iran, nor has it permitted its territory to be used to launch offensive operations against any neighboring state,” Ambassador Al-Zain Al-Sabah said.
A Bahraini government spokesperson didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Kuwait denies it, but I fully expect it would if it were a secret mission.