US says it struck Iranian drone command sites at weekend

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The US has stated on Sunday it conducted "self-defence strikes" on Iranian radar and drone control sites in Iran's Goruk and Qeshm Island at the weekend in what it said was a response to "aggressive" actions from Tehran.

The US Central Command said in a post on social media platform X that Iran had shot down a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters.

CENTCOM said US fighter aircraft responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones.

It added that no US military personnel were harmed.

Iran's elite IRGC said on Monday its aerospace force targeted an air base used in what it called a US attack on a telecoms tower on Sirik Island, but did not give the location of the base.

The two countries had traded strikes last week as well with Iran targeting a US air base after the US military carried out what a Washington official said were strikes targeting an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz.

 

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