Iran regional confrontation

IRGC claims a US MQ-1 drone downed off Sirik

ATTACK
Location
Sirik county, Iran; offshore interception reference (measured administrative or locality reference; offshore interception point not given)
Actors
Iran · United States
Importance
Standard

Mehr and Al-Manar carried an IRGC statement claiming its air defences destroyed a US MQ-1 drone over the eastern Strait of Hormuz off Sirik on 29 October. The IRGC called it its fourteenth such drone. The claim has not been independently confirmed and the exact interception position was not supplied.

Verification: unverified

Evidence: IRGC downs 14th US MQ-1 over Strait of Hormuz - Mehr News Agency, الحرس الثوري الايراني يعلن تدمير طائرة مسيّرة من طراز MQ-1 في أجواء شرق مضيق هرمز – قناة المنار

The account is attributed to the cited official or newsroom record and has not been independently corroborated. The marker is a geographic reference, not an exact incident position.