TEHRAN, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Iran has issued Thursday "decisive" warnings to hotel owners in regional countries, especially Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to refrain from accepting U.S. military personnel, otherwise they will become legitimate targets for the Iranian armed forces, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Following missile strikes and joint operations by Iran and allied resistance groups that damaged U.S. military infrastructure in West Asia, some surviving U.S. personnel have taken refuge in hotels in regional countries, including Bahrain and the UAE, said the report.

The hotels and civilian places used by the U.S. military personnel are not limited to those in Bahrain and the UAE, the informed sources were quoted as saying. And substitute bases and places sheltering foreign forces have also been detected in other regional states.

The U.S. Marines have been transferred to Djibouti's international airport and deployed to the region, said the report.