Hyderabad, May 28 -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Thursday, May 28, said it had targeted an "American airbase" in retaliation for a US strike on a site near the airport in the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas.

In a statement carried by the semi-official Tasnim news agency, the IRGC said the airbase, which it described as the source of the US "aggression", was attacked at 4:50 am local time (01:20 GMT). The statement did not specify the location of the targeted base.

The announcement came hours after reports that US forces had struck an area on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city near the Strait of Hormuz.

The IRGC warned that any further "aggression will not go unanswered" and said future mil...