Iran Blames US Patriot Missile for Kuwait Airport Damage
IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said internal investigations had cleared the force's Aerospace Division of any responsibility for the terminal strike.
"Our investigations regarding the impact on Kuwait's passenger terminal show that the IRGC Aerospace Force did not fire at this target," the spokesman said.
Mohebbi instead pinned the destruction on an errant American interceptor missile, alleging it struck the terminal after failing to neutralize incoming Iranian projectiles.
"The destruction of the passenger terminal at Kuwait Airport was caused by an American Patriot system error after it failed to intercept Iranian missiles," he added.
The claim was carried by an Iranian state broadcaster.
The IRGC separately acknowledged on Wednesday that it had launched attacks against a US military base in Kuwait and the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, framing the strikes as retaliation for an overnight American attack on its communications tower on southern Qeshm Island.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) moved swiftly to counter Tehran's account of the airport incident, offering a direct and unsparing rebuttal.
"Totally false," CENTCOM said on US social media company X.
The command asserted that Iran had struck the civilian airport "with drones in a deliberate, calculated, and unjustified attack" — directly contradicting Tehran's claim of a Patriot malfunction and placing full responsibility for civilian infrastructure damage squarely on Iranian forces.
The dueling narratives underscore the deepening information war accompanying the military escalation, as both sides contest not only the battlefield but the account of events presented to the international community.
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