IRAN PERSPECTIVE

Tehran, June 7. Mehr News and IRNA depict the retaliation as surgical rather than vengeful. The official Revolutionary Guards narrative, picked up verbatim by the English-language wires, fixes the clock: at 01:30, four tankers attempted to exit Hormuz without coordinating with the IRGC Navy; after warnings, one was struck and stopped, the other three turned back; at 02:00, American drones hit two Iranian telecommunications towers, one on Qeshm Island, one in Sirik; in immediate response, the IRGC Aerospace Force targeted the Ali al-Salem air base in Kuwait and "the remaining significant facilities" of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain. The sentence that follows is the central warning: "If these acts of aggression are repeated, the response will not be limited. You [the U.S.-Israeli coalition] will be responsible for the consequences of the complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz to the export of your oil and gas." Mehr News also itemizes the operational cost: 11 flights diverted to Dammam and Riyadh, Kuwaiti airspace closed for two hours from 4:15 to 6:15 — not from modesty, but to remind everyone that Iranian retaliation has a measurable price. IRNA adds a diplomatic layer: Iran's ambassador in London explicitly rejects "the British narrative" on Hormuz and declares that "external forces cannot guarantee regional security." A short, almost symbolic piece reports that a Kuwaiti television host has been jailed for supporting Iran: to Tehran, proof that the Arab street does not follow its governments. The official position has been constant since April: the truce was violated by Washington, not by Tehran, and the ultimate option — full closure — is coded as legitimate defense, not escalation.