U.S. Central Command Says on November 13 It Shot Down Two Iranian Attack Drones Headed Toward Bahrain, With No Injuries and No Damage, Denying the Revolutionary Guard Claim of a Strike on a U.S. Radar (Follow-Up)
The United States military said on Friday, November 13, that U.S. forces shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones headed toward Bahrain, denying a claim by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that it had struck a U.S. early-warning radar system in the kingdom.
In its statement, U.S. Central Command said the Guard had launched two one-way attack drones toward Bahrain and that both were shot down by U.S. forces, with no injuries and no damage. Central Command said the Guard's claim that it had attacked a U.S. early-warning radar in Bahrain was false.
Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted a Revolutionary Guard statement as saying the claimed attack on the radar system followed a strike on a telecommunications tower in the southern Iranian port of Sirik, and that it was a serious warning to the United States to cease its strikes. It was Iran's first report of targeting a facility in Bahrain since September.
Bahrain is home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. Bahrain's Ministry of Information did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Revolutionary Guard also said on Friday that a liquefied petroleum gas tanker struck a mine and exploded while trying to sail through the Strait of Hormuz, saying the vessel had ignored repeated warnings. The claim could not be independently verified, and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a British military agency that monitors incidents at sea, did not immediately report the incident.
Neither the Iranian claim of striking the radar nor its account of the tanker incident could be independently verified.
Source: U.S. Central Command
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：美军防空系统发射拦截弹（科威特牵头的反无人机联合演习）。来源：美国军方 DVIDS 官方发布，公共领域（经 Wikimedia Commons）。 / Photo: A U.S. air-defence system firing during a Kuwaiti-led combined counter-drone exercise. Credit: U.S. military / DVIDS, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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