Bahrain confirms Iranian attack caused fire at company facility — D33

Bahrain's Interior Ministry confirmed via an official post on X that an Iranian attack caused a fire at a company facility on Wednesday April 1 (D33), the New York Times live blog reported. Sirens were heard in Bahrain; the facility was not named. This appears consistent with earlier unverified reports of Iranian missiles striking Batelco headquarters in Hamala, Bahrain (the country's largest telecom company, which hosts Amazon Web Services infrastructure). However, the Bahrain Interior Ministry did not identify the company by name, so attribution to Batelco specifically remains unconfirmed. What is confirmed is that an Iranian attack struck a corporate facility in Bahrain on D33 — the first confirmed hit on Bahraini business infrastructure during the conflict, and potentially a first execution of the IRGC's April 1 corporate threat against US-linked companies.