IRGC Downs US Cruise Missile West of Iran

According to a statement, the cruise missile was intercepted by a newly deployed advanced air defense system of the IRGC Aerospace Force operating under Iran’s integrated air defense network.

The cruise missile was brought down on the outskirts of Khorramabad, in the Dareh Nasb area, during aggression by the US terrorist military on Sunday morning, it added.

The latest strike came as the Iranian Armed Forces launched coordinated retaliatory operations against US military facilities across the region following renewed American attacks on southern Iran. In successive phases of the operation, the IRGC said it also struck a second US vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, bringing it to a halt, and targeted the strategic US Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, destroying its fighter aircraft maintenance and repair center as well as its command-and-control center.

The IRGC later announced a heavy missile strike on logistical support facilities for US naval vessels and aircraft carriers at the Port of Duqm in Oman, while declaring that the determination demonstrated by the Iranian nation during the recent unprecedented funeral procession attended by tens of millions had now been reflected on the battlefield.

Separately, the Iranian Army said it launched waves of suicide drones against US military facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain, targeting a Patriot air defense system, an ammunition depot and a radar site in Kuwait, as well as a US military communications system and radar installation in Bahrain. The Army warned that responsibility for the consequences of continued US attacks and the resulting insecurity in the region would rest with the “American-Zionist enemy” and stressed that any further aggression would trigger even more severe responses.