Iran's Revolutionary Guards claim to have intercepted two hostile drones, including a Heron over Tehran and a Hermes 900 over southern Iran, amid the ongoing regional war.
Amid the ongoing regional conflict sparked by the massive US-Israeli military campaign against Iran earlier this month, Iranian air defenses claim to have intercepted two hostile unmanned aerial vehicles over key regions of the country.
Reports from Al Jazeera and Television Syria, citing the Iranian news agency ISNA, state that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down a Hermes 900 drone. This interception occurred in the skies over the city of Bushehr in southern Iran, according to Al Jazeera. The pro-resistance network Al Mayadeen and the Gaza-focused Warlife channel specified the location of the Hermes 900 interception as Jam County in the south. The incident was also echoed by the pro-Hamas monitoring channel South Lebanon - Enemy Monitor.
Furthermore, Iranian air defenses engaged targets over the capital. Al Mayadeen and Warlife reported that the IRGC downed a Heron drone in the skies over Tehran. Maintaining the framing of their original source material, the channels described the aircraft as belonging to the US-Israeli aggression. This interception claim over Tehran was further circulated by the Iraqi channel NAYA, which maintains an anti-US and anti-Israel editorial stance.
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