Tehran, July 23 -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Army on Thursday carried out retaliatory strikes targeting US military facilities in Kuwait and Jordan, claiming the destruction of a Patriot defence system, an MQ-9 drone depot in Kuwait and a THAAD radar system in Jordan.

In a statement, carried by Iranian state media Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the IRGC said its forces targeted American bases in Jordan in response to what it described as repeated US attacks against Iran.

"Honorable and noble people of Jordan, your Mujahideen brothers in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in punishment of the child-killing American army and in response to the repeated aggressions against the territory of the I...