Saturday morning, at the same time as the announcement by local news agencies such as Fars, Tasnim and IRNA that "a terrible sound of a fighter" and "hit by two missiles" were heard on Keshem Island, the public relations of the Islamic Republic of Iran's army announced the destruction of an American UAV on that island. This statement said: "An American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle was hit by the fire of the modern systems of the Army's Air Defense Force, under the integrated air defense network, in the skies of Kashem and destroyed."

Saturday morning, at the same time as the announcement by local news agencies such as Fars, Tasnim and IRNA that "a terrible sound of a fighter" and "hit by two missiles" were heard on Keshem Island, the public relations of the Islamic Republic of Iran's army announced the destruction of an American UAV on that island. This statement said: "An American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle was hit by the fire of the modern systems of the Army's Air Defense Force, under the integrated air defense network, in the skies of Kashem and destroyed."