Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they destroyed a US early-warning radar in Bahrain tonight, in what they called a response to an "enemy" air strike on a telecommunications tower in Sirik, in southern Iran's Hormozgan province.

The IRGC said their aerospace forces "targeted and destroyed the American aggressors' early-warning radar on the island of Bahrain a few hours ago." Neither the strike on the radar nor the damage has been independently verified, nor has the USA addressed the strike at the time of writing.

As has become typical of recent attacks on Iran, the USA has not claimed the strike on Sirik, and Iranian state media gave no details of damage or casualties. Bahrain and the US military had not commented on the Guards' claimed strike. The US President, Donald Trump, had previously confirmed some of the strikes that have been targeting Iran in recent weeks were launched by the USA.

Barak Ravid, the correspondent from Axios who is close to the US President also confirmed the strikes were launched by the USA, before deleting the tweet without explanation.

If the attack by Iran is addressed, Washington may present the attack as unprovoked, but the United States has been attacking Iran for weeks without always saying so. US forces struck Qeshm Island, also in Hormozgan, on 2 November, and officials confirmed it only anonymously, calling it self-defence. Trump acknowledged it the next day, telling Fox News "we hit it last night," and thousands of US troops are still enforcing a naval blockade off Iran's coast. An attack nobody claims still happened.

Bahrain hosts the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, and its radar sites have been hit before. Iran destroyed the enclosures protecting US radar systems at Naval Support Activity Bahrain within the first two days of the war in late February.

Hours before the Guards' statement, Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia had asked him "to please just let it be the way it is now for a while," adding, "I'm not sure I agree with it.