Iran claimed on Sunday that its forces targeted a US sea drone as it attempted to enter what it called a "restricted" area in the Strait of Hormuz, but the US military later denied Tehran's claim, as the standoff in the key waterway keeps escalating.
In a statement on Iranian state television, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed it launched an attack on an "unmanned surface vessel" off the south coast of Iran, saying that “the aggressor United States must understand that it has no choice but to leave the region and stop its acts of mischief.”