DUBAI — A Patriot air protection system was concerned within the interception of an Iranian drone over a residential space of Bahrain on March 9, Bahrain’s authorities mentioned on Saturday, an incident that the US army had characterised as a direct Iranian drone strike.
On the time, Bahrain mentioned 32 civilians had been injured, together with youngsters who required medical remedy, and the US army mentioned an Iranian drone had struck a residential neighborhood.
On Saturday, a authorities spokesperson mentioned the dominion had been subjected to a number of Iranian drone assaults that day, and that the interception over the Sitra district had prevented a drone strike and saved lives.
“Throughout this incident, the Patriot air protection system intercepted an Iranian drone aerially,” they mentioned.
“Had the Iranian drone impacted the residential space, it might have resulted in important lack of life.”
US Central Command on the time denied reviews from Russian and Iranian media {that a} US Patriot missile had didn’t intercept an Iranian missile or drone and as a substitute inadvertently struck a residential space.
The US-made Patriot surface-to-air missile protection system is designed to intercept missiles, drones and different aerial assaults.
It has been utilized by the US and Gulf Arab allies together with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar to guard cities, vitality infrastructure and army bases from Iranian missile and drone assaults throughout the Iran conflict.
