Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on the 7th (local time) that many U.S. troops and commanders were killed or wounded in attacks over the past day.
According to a report the Spokesperson released that day, over the past 24 hours, 21 personnel from the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet based in Manama, Bahrain, were killed and many others were injured in attacks by Iranian forces.
The Revolutionary Guard also said about 200 people were killed or injured at the U.S. Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In this regard, the UAE Ministry of National Defense and the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) said that of the 16 ballistic missiles fired toward the UAE over the past 24 hours, 15 were intercepted and the remaining one fell into the sea. They also said 121 drones were detected, 119 were shot down, and two fell on UAE territory.
The headquarters of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet and the U.S. Al Dhafra Air Base have been targets of Iranian retaliation since the United States and Israel began strikes on Iran.
The Revolutionary Guard also said that a U.S.-owned oil tanker was attacked in the northern Gulf (Persian Gulf). The tanker appears to refer to the Prima, which the Revolutionary Guard said it attacked that day.
Earlier, the Revolutionary Guard said, "An oil tanker named 'Prima' was hit by a suicide drone while sailing in defiance of repeated warnings from the Revolutionary Guard Navy announcing a ban on passage through the Strait of Hormuz."