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The Public Relations Department of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in Statements No. 12 and 13, announced attacks on U.S. military targets in Bahrain and Jordan. According to these statements, the attacks were carried out in response to what were described as the “atrocities of the U.S. military” and the “crimes of the Great Satan” against the Iranian nation. These events took place at dawn on the day the statements were issued.

• Statement No. 12 of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the “smashing” of the NSA operations center, the command-and-control center, large depots of military parts and equipment, and fuel tanks of the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
• The statement began with the phrase “In the name of God, the Breaker of the Tyrants” and cited the verse: “So whoever commits aggression against you, then commit aggression against him…”
• Statement No. 13 of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps contained an “important message from the IRGC to the people of Jordan.”
• This statement announced the “smashing” of the hangars of F-15, F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, as well as a number of U.S. MQ-9 strategic drones at Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan.
• Statement No. 13 also began with the phrase “In the name of God, the Breaker of the Tyrants” and cited the verse: “Indeed, Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”
• In Statement No. 13, the IRGC told the people of Jordan that “at dawn today, the atrocities of the child-killing U.S. military against our nation resumed once again.”
• In its Statement No. 12, News Fori, addressing the “heroic and history-making people of Islamic Iran,” said that “last night the child-killing army and the covenant-breaking U.S. regime, by publishing…” (the rest of the text is not available in the source).
• In its Statement No. 13, News Fori told the people of Jordan that “the sacred land of Jordan is the foothold of the prophets and is no place for occupiers and international criminals.”
• The outlet also called on the people of Jordan in Statement No. 13 to “bring an end to the presence of the Great Satan’s army on their soil.”. Coverage difference: All outlets covered IRGC Statements Nos. 12 and 13 in the same way and similarly reflected the details regarding the targets struck in Bahrain and Jordan. The main difference lies in the tone and the audiences addressed in parts of the statements; while IRNA and Khabar Fori merely relayed the statements, Akhbar-e Fori, in its Statement No. 12, addressed the “heroic and history-making people of Islamic Iran” and, in Statement No. 13, addressed the “people of Jordan” and asked them to “bring an end to the presence of the Great Satan’s army on their soil.”