Just when it looked as if the war with Iran could not become any more dangerous, a new report is putting an almost unthinkable scenario on the table:
An Iranian ground incursion into Kuwait aimed at seizing U.S. military bases.
The report names Camp Buehring and either Camp Arifjan or Ali Al Salem Air Base as potential targets if Washington continues its military campaign against Tehran.
Here is the breaking report now racing across X:
BREAKING: Iran is seriously considering a ground incursion into Kuwait to seize U.S. military bases, including Camp Buehring and either Camp Arifjan or Ali Al Salem Air Base, if Washington continues its military campaign against Tehran, according to prominent Iranian journalist and analyst Mahdi Khanalizadeh and former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
— The Hormuz Report (@HormuzReport) July 19, 2026
That is an extraordinary claim, and it needs one important qualification right up front.
No official Iranian invasion order has been publicly confirmed. There is no verified report of Iranian ground forces beginning such an operation.
What has emerged is a series of increasingly open statements from influential Iranian voices discussing a ground attack on American installations in the region.
Iranian figures are saying the quiet part out loud.
The supplied report cites Iranian journalist and analyst Mahdi Khanalizadeh, who described Kuwait as one of Iran’s principal options for a possible ground incursion intended to seize two U.S. bases.
That statement does not establish that Tehran has approved an operation. It does show that an invasion scenario is being discussed publicly while Iranian attacks on Kuwait are already underway.
And Khanalizadeh is not the only Iranian figure floating the idea.
Iran International reported Wednesday that former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, who now serves in Iran’s parliament, proposed a ground assault on a U.S. base somewhere in the region.
Mottaki went much further. He called for Iranian forces to capture 100 Americans and transport them to Iran.
Mottaki served as Iran’s foreign minister from 2005 through 2010 and now holds a seat in the legislature. His statement therefore came from a longtime regime insider with national-security experience, even though he was proposing a course of action rather than announcing a decision already taken.
Talk of invading a neighboring country and taking American service members prisoner is a direct threat. It arrives while the shooting war is intensifying by the hour.
Kuwait is already under Iranian attack.
Kuwait’s government says Iran has repeatedly attacked targets inside the country, including military sites and vital civilian infrastructure.
On Sunday, the English-language feed of the official Kuwait News Agency reported that an Iranian attack hit a power-generation and water-desalination plant for the second time in two days, setting part of the facility on fire.
#Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity, Water & Renewable Energy announces that, as a result of the Iranian aggression against the country, a power generation & water desalination plant came under a second attack in two days, causing a fire in parts of the facility.
— Kuwait News Agency – English Feed (@kuna_en) July 19, 2026
The danger to civilians is enormous.
The Associated Press reported that roughly 90 percent of Kuwait’s drinking water comes from desalination. A sustained campaign against those plants could threaten an essential lifeline for the entire country.
AP also reported Sunday that Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain activated air defenses against incoming Iranian drones and missiles as the regional conflict escalated again.
The Gulf Cooperation Council’s secretary-general accused Iran of war crimes over attacks on civilian facilities and other infrastructure. Kuwait has repeatedly said it did not permit its territory to be used for offensive action against Iran.
The latest Iranian attack came as U.S. forces struck surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage and maritime capabilities inside Iran. The expanding target lists on both sides have now pulled civilian utilities, military installations and commercial shipping into the same rapidly widening battlefield.
President Trump orders new strikes.
The latest invasion talk follows a deadly Iranian attack on American personnel in Jordan.
The Associated Press reported that two U.S. service members were killed, one remained missing, and four others required hospitalization after Iran struck a base in Jordan.
President Trump responded by ordering another wave of American airstrikes against Iran.
The deadly attack shattered the latest pause in fighting and drove Washington back into direct retaliation. American forces had already been conducting repeated strikes on Iranian targets, but the deaths in Jordan raised the stakes from pressure over Hormuz to punishment for Americans killed in action.
Jordan said its air defenses were also intercepting Iranian missiles, while alarms and defensive systems were activated elsewhere across the Gulf. The conflict was no longer confined to the waters around Hormuz or to military sites inside Iran.
Today at 6 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began launching new airstrikes against Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction. The strikes are designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 18, 2026
CENTCOM said the operation was designed both to punish the IRGC for its attack on Americans and to reduce Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States has also been enforcing a naval blockade while striking Iranian military, logistics, weapons-storage and maritime targets.
Could Iran actually invade Kuwait?
Iran and Kuwait do not share a land border.
A true ground incursion would therefore require Iranian forces to move across southern Iraq, conduct an amphibious operation across the Persian Gulf, or rely heavily on allied militias operating inside Iraq.
Any of those routes would be extraordinarily difficult and would risk turning the current conflict into a much wider regional war.
It would also place Iranian forces in direct combat with the United States and Kuwait on Kuwaiti soil. The consequences could be catastrophic.
For now, the public evidence supports calling this a reported option and an open threat. It does not show that Iranian commanders have ordered troops into Kuwait.
Iran has already crossed one red line after another by striking American personnel, Kuwaiti military facilities and infrastructure that helps provide civilians with electricity and drinking water.
When regime-connected voices begin openly discussing seizing U.S. bases and hauling American prisoners back to Iran, Washington cannot afford to dismiss it as empty chatter.
This story is developing rapidly.
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