Iranian missile bases are being hit EXTREMELY hard by U.S. and Israeli air power, especially in Western Iran.

That's the reason for the sporadic launches and relatively small waves.

But Iran's defense doctrine was always built around the assumption that missile bases would be heavily suppressed during war, and therefore the strategy is a war of attrition.

🇺🇸🇧🇭⚡️- U.S. Embassy in Bahrein has closed indefinitely, citing security risks.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ - A senior Iranian official told Al Jazeera:

"Targeting our political leaders will not go unanswered"

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ - Iranian Foreign Ministry: "Washington has fallen into the Israeli trap"

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️- Iran releases footage of launching ballistic missiles against the US bases in the gulf countries

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- BREAKING: New impacts in Bahrain!!!!

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦🇦🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Iranian ballistic missiles launched towards Qatar and the UAE

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- Red Alerts in Haifa, Two or three more missiles launched from Iran.

🇮🇷⚡️BREAKING - The passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has been halted.

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸⚡️- Israeli-US strikes in Tabriz, Iran

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israel has assessed that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed.

No word on this from Iranian media.

🇮🇷🇧🇭🇺🇸⚡️- Interception of an Iranian missile over Bahrain.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US fighter jets are now operating in Iran's southern airspace.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Another Iranian ballistic missile impacts in Bahrain.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts across Israel, a larger barrage of ballistic missiles launched from Iran

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Massive US airstrikes shook Kermanshah, western Iran, from where Iran is launching most of its ballistic missiles

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iranian drones will reach Israeli airspace in about an hour.