At a session of the UN General Assembly's Third Committee, the Islamic Republic warned Bahrain and other countries in the region that it would respond if their territory, bases or airspace were used again to attack Iran. The warning was delivered by Ali Karimi Magham, second secretary of the Islamic Republic's mission to the United Nations, on Monday, 5 October 2026, in response to remarks by Bahrain's representative.
According to the state-affiliated Mehr news agency and the news website Nukta, Karimi Magham accused Bahrain of placing its territory, bases and airspace at the disposal of the United States for use in what he called an «illegal war» against Iran. He said a country that had facilitated such attacks should not be surprised by the consequences. The diplomat described the Islamic Republic's earlier attacks as «legitimate defence» and claimed that Tehran had not started the conflict.
Threats against countries hosting US forces
Addressing Bahrain, Karimi Magham said the countries of the region must choose between building shared security and perpetuating insecurity, and that Bahrain had previously chosen the latter. According to him, repeating that choice would not necessarily produce the same result as before. Reports did not specify exactly what Bahrain's representative had said to provoke this response.
Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet and was targeted by Islamic Republic missile and drone attacks during the war between the United States and the Islamic Republic, which began in late February with US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
At the UN, the Islamic Republic threatened Bahrain with a military response for hosting US forces.
Background to the threats against regional countries
The warning came on the same day that Ali Abdollahi, chief of the general staff of the Islamic Republic's armed forces, had also threatened the countries hosting US forces. At the same time, Masoud Pezeshkian, meeting Armenia's foreign minister, had called negotiations with the United States meaningless, a sign that diplomatic efforts to end the war remain stalled.
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