Fars news agency, linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, said Iran hit a US air base as tensions in the Middle East escalate in the early hours of the fourth day of the conflict

Iranian media has reported that a drone and missile attack has destroyed a United States air base in Bahrain.

The reported strike on Tuesday, March 3, comes as hostilities in the Middle East enter their fourth day. The US embassy in Saudi Arabia was earlier struck by two drones.

Israel and the US hit Iran in joint strikes on several key sites on Saturday, February 28. Iran has retaliated by striking sites across the Middle East.

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Footage posted by Fars news agency, affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), appears to show a wave of rockets exploding into distant targets.

Fars news agency claims the IRGC's drone and missile attack destroyed a US command and staff building air base in Bahrain's Sheikh Isa region. It also said that the attack caused fuel tanks to explode, the BBC reported.

"The fourteenth wave of Operation True Promise 4 by the IRGC Navy Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted the U.S. air base in Bahrain's Sheikh Isa region with an extensive drone and missile attack at dawn today," Fars news agency wrote in a post on X.

The US State Department has ordered American citizens to immediately leave Bahrain, along with a several other countries in the Middle East.

Smoke could be seen rising from a US-run naval base in Bahrain earlier on, the BBC reported.

The US has not yet commented on the reported strikes.