09/09/2026
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09/09/2026
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 9: U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Wednesday rejected claims by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that Iranian forces had struck two U.S. Navy destroyers operating in the Middle East.
CENTCOM said the claims were “completely false,” asserting that no U.S. Navy warship had been hit and that all attempted IRGC attacks had failed.
The command also claimed that U.S. forces had destroyed 10 Iranian tankers over the past week, saying the vessels were part of a multibillion-dollar “shadow network” used to fund the IRGC.
“Iran cannot defend them,” CENTCOM said in its statement.
The claims come amid heightened military tensions between the United States and Iran across the Middle East, with both sides issuing competing accounts of military operations and attacks in the region.
