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Iran fires missiles and drones at U.S. bases

September 2, 2026

Iran says it fired missiles and drones at U.S. forces in the region after American airstrikes, with U.S. Central Command calling the latest round complete.

Reuters reports a two way exchange, with American firepower falling on Iran and Iranian fire returning against regional bases, on a scale it places above anything since July. CBS News carries the sequence in detail. Tehran said on Tuesday it was answering the newest American raids by aiming drones and missiles at U.S. troops nearby, and its military laid claim to a night of attacks reaching Erbil in northern Iraq, Ali Al Salem in Kuwait, the naval base in Bahrain, and both Al Dhafra and Al Minhad in the United Arab Emirates. Jordan, which quarters American troops, was hit in the same window. By Tuesday evening U.S. Central Command described its own round against Iran as finished.

What happened at a wedding in the south sits at the center of the human toll. Iran's foreign ministry says an American airstrike on a private home there on Tuesday evening killed or wounded upwards of 50 people. Iran's IRIB state television network put the count on Wednesday at four dead and dozens hurt when three missiles came down on a celebration in Hormozgan province. The American answer is a flat denial of intent: civilians are never the target, unlike the practice attributed to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. President Trump dismissed the value of any deal with Tehran and used a social media post on Tuesday to ask why Iranians were not rising against their government. Baqaei, speaking for Iran's foreign ministry, promised a firm answer to what he called savage crimes and told anyone staying quiet that quiet would not protect them.

The money read is corroborated across the coverage. CBS News has crude still climbing early on Wednesday, each benchmark adding 1% to 2% a day since combat picked back up over the weekend and each now about 40% higher compared to a year ago, with tanker movement through the Strait of Hormuz curtailed by the war. Axios reports American strikes on Iranian tankers under a new tanker for tanker policy, which points at the same chokepoint. The Washington Post frames the Iranian volley as an answer thrown in the face of Trump's warning. Three things hold across every account: the American raids, the Iranian reply against Gulf bases, and the price of oil going up. Where the fighting runs from here nobody in the coverage says.

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The accounts give the same version of the overnight attacks on U.S. bases in the region, and no different figure or framing appears in the record by the time of draft.

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