Posted on 05/04/2026 5:56:35 AM PDT by RandFan
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) on Monday dismissed a claim from Iranian state media that a U.S. warship was hit by Iranian missiles.
“CLAIM: Iranian state media claims that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hit a U.S. warship with two missiles,” Centcom said in a post on the social platform X early Monday morning.
“TRUTH: No U.S. Navy ships have been struck. U.S. forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports,” Centcom added, referencing an effort announced by President Trump on Sunday to free up ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency, in a Monday post on the social platform X translated from Persian by the artificial intelligence tool Grok, posted what it said was a statement from the country’s armed forces.
“With the decisive and swift warning from the Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the entry of enemy American Zionist destroyers into the Strait of Hormuz area was prevented,” the reported statement posted by the semi-official outlet linked with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reads
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