{"id":327865,"date":"2026-06-10T15:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327865"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:18:56","slug":"irans-revolutionary-guard-claims-it-downed-us-mq-9-drone-targeted-fifth-fleet-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327865","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claims it downed US MQ-9 drone, targeted Fifth Fleet in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tarek Chouiref \u2013 aa.com June 10, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed early Wednesday that it shot down a US MQ-9 drone over southern Bushehr province and launched a drone attack targeting the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the IRGC said the attack on the Bahrain-based fleet came in response to recent American strikes on Jask, Sirik and Qeshm in southern Iran.<\/p>\n

It said the US strikes damaged a telecommunications tower in Sirik and destroyed two water tanks in the city\u2019s Bamani district.<\/p>\n

The IRGC added that its naval forces launched the drone attack against the US Fifth Fleet at 2.30 am local time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clashes are ongoing,\u201d the statement said, warning that \u201cheavier responses\u201d would follow if attacks continue.<\/p>\n

The developments came hours after US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the completion of what it described as \u201cself-defense\u201d strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n

CENTCOM said US fighter jets struck Iranian air defense systems and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz in response to the downing of a US Army Apache helicopter in a previous incident.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards Corps claimed to shot down another U.S. MQ-9 drone early Wednesday. The downing of the $30 million drone over the Strait of Hormuz, is the latest in a string of around 30 MQ-9s lost to Iran <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":325210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327870,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327865\/revisions\/327870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}