The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims its advanced air and space defense system intercepted and shot down a US MQ-1 combat-reconnaissance UAV over Kish Island at 2:30 p.m., marking the 17th such shootdown, according to the IRGC's public relations department.
The Revolutionary Guards characterized the plane as belonging to the "army of the American aggressor" and described the interception as another failure of the enemy's reconnaissance missions.