Overnight, Iran fired missiles and drones at Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait. Jordan says it shot down three ballistic missiles; Kuwait says it intercepted six missiles and thirty-three drones; Bahrain spent the night under air-raid sirens. Arab governments lined up to condemn the attacks, naming all three countries. * Now try to find those countries on RT. From Moscow's state broadcaster this week: "Iranian drone strikes destroyed US HIMARS launchers in Kuwait – media." "Iran warns Gulf states against facilitating US attacks." On RT's map, Kuwait isn't a country of several million people that got shot at — it's a parking lot with American hardware on it. * Grammar tour, stop one: "destroyed." Past tense, declarative, done deal. The claim comes from Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Neither Washington nor Kuwait confirmed it, and CENTCOM denied the casualty claims that came with it. RT's headline files it as history anyway. * Stop two: that little "– media" hanging off the end. Whose media? Iranian state media. "– media" is headline-speak for "a guy told us" — except the guy is the one who flew the drones. * Stop three: who gets which verb. When Gulf countries object to missiles crossing their skies, RT has Iran "warning" them "against facilitating US attacks." The people living under the flight path appear in the story exactly once — to be threatened again. * Al Jazeera — owned by Qatar, hardly a neutral bystander in this neighborhood — still managed the version with all the nouns in it when an earlier round of these strikes hit: "Iran attacks Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan in retaliation for US strikes." It carries Tehran's "retaliation" logic too, sure. But three sovereign countries, named, in one headline. It can be done. * A missile that lands in Kuwait has landed in Kuwait. No amount of headline grammar relocates the crater.