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The ruins of a building where a wedding reception was being held after a U.S. airstrike in a city in southern Iran. UPI/Yonhap - Seoul Economic Daily International News from South Korea](https://wimg.sedaily.com/news/cms/2026/09/03/news-p.v1.20260903.c7b4847e8a9048be8aad5cbd3fc71b25_P1.jpg "Iran Strikes U.S. Base in Kuwait as Hormuz Clashes Escalate")
Iran attacked a U.S. military base in Kuwait on the 3rd, as armed clashes between Washington and Tehran over control of the Strait of Hormuz intensified again.
The Kuwaiti military said on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that its air defenses were responding to hostile missile and drone attacks, calling the assault an atrocious act of aggression by Iran.
Iranian state television said the attack targeted U.S. military facilities in Kuwait and described it as a response to American crimes against the Iranian people.
The military confrontation between the two countries reignited on the 30th of last month over passage rights through the Strait of Hormuz, and attacks and reprisals have followed in succession since. U.S. forces struck two rocket launchers used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to lay mines on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz on the 30th, and Iran responded immediately by firing missiles at two U.S. air bases in Jordan. On the 1st of this month, the United States carried out additional strikes on IRGC targets.
Evidence has also emerged that U.S. forces struck civilians. The New York Times reported on the 2nd that a bomb that hit a wedding hall in southern Iran, causing more than 70 civilian casualties, was analyzed to be a weapon used by the U.S. military.
President Donald Trump, however, said the renewed offensive against Iran would not last long.
Trump gave the answer at the White House in Washington on the 2nd when reporters asked how long the new air campaign against Iran would continue, saying he did not know how much longer Iran could hold out but that it did not matter how long it took.
Trump said Iran had been trying to rebuild its radar, missile and mine-laying systems, and that it had been attempting to build rockets that launch mines, which the United States eliminated. He stressed that the previous night's attack had been very powerful and that U.S. forces were ready to strike again at any time. Some observers expect Trump could pursue stronger military action after the November midterm elections.
