Multiple Iranian news channels report that a drone operated by an Iran-backed militia has struck a key United States facility in Iraq, with conflicting reports placing the strike in either Baghdad or Sulaymaniyah.
Multiple Iranian news outlets are circulating reports of a drone strike against a United States facility in Iraq. The channels are broadly amplifying a claim originally attributed to the Washington Post, which quotes an unnamed security official regarding the origin of the attack.
The news channel خبری پلاس|خبرفوری 🔖فوری (@Khabari) reported a "drone attack on US diplomatic facilities in Baghdad." In a follow-up message, the channel cited the Washington Post, stating that "a drone belonging to an Iran-backed militia appears to have attacked a key American facility in Iraq."
Fars News International, a hardline state-affiliated Iranian media outlet, corroborated the citation. They reported that a key American center was targeted, directly quoting the Washington Post's assessment that the drone was "apparently flown by a militia group supported by Iran." However, Fars News also provided a conflicting location for the strike in a separate dispatch, reporting the "impact of a drone on an American target in Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq".The strike report was heavily amplified across the Iranian media ecosystem. خبرفوری جنگ🚨اخبارفوری امریکا فوری, a channel dedicated to military and US news, relayed the same Washington Post report that a key US facility in Iraq was hit by a drone. This specific alert was cross-posted by other prominent sources, including the mainstream aggregator Akharin Khabar and the کانال اخبار سپاه پاسداران (IRGC News Channel), indicating high visibility and endorsement of the narrative within official Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps media circles.
The channels uniformly rely on translating a Washington Post report to attribute the attack to an Iran-backed militia, rather than claiming direct responsibility. There is a factual discrepancy regarding the location among the sources, with Khabari claiming it was a diplomatic facility in Baghdad, while Fars News explicitly locates the target in Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq.