{"id":3562,"date":"2026-10-31T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:03:56","slug":"us-denies-irans-claim-of-destroying-american-sea-drone-in-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3562","title":{"rendered":"US denies Iran\u2019s claim of destroying American sea drone in Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US military\u2019s Central Command (CENTCOM) denied an Iranian claim that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had destroyed an unmanned US military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll US military unmanned surface vessels in the Middle East are accounted for, including a squadron of advanced sea drones on patrol in the Strait of Hormuz supporting CENTCOM\u2019s defensive layer,\u201d the command said in a post on X on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Iran\u2019s official IRNA news agency reported that the Iranian Navy had destroyed an \u201cenemy unmanned vessel\u201d operating east of the strait. The statement did not identify the vessel or its operator.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Iranian Navy said two tankers had struck naval mines and caught fire after sailing through areas designated as restricted by Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC Navy also said it had stopped two tankers attempting to transit the strait through unauthorised routes.<\/p>\n<p>The claims come amid rising tensions between Iran and the US over maritime navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global energy supplies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military\u2019s Central Command (CENTCOM) denied an Iranian claim that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had destroyed an unmanned US military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. \u201cAll US military unmanned surface vessels in the Middle East are accounted for, including a squadron of advanced sea drones on patrol in the Strait of Hormuz supporting CENTCOM\u2019s defensive layer,\u201d the command said in a post on X on Friday. Earlier, Iran\u2019s official IRNA news agency reported that the Iranian Navy had destroyed an \u201cenemy unmanned vessel\u201d operating east of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}