The explosions heard near Bandar Abbas and the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday night may have been caused by hostile action from the UAE, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated Tasnim media outlet reported.
Unnamed sources also told Tasnim that the explosions were related to a confrontation with two small aircraft.
Tasmin emphasized that the incident has not yet been officially confirmed, adding that if it is, “the UAE will pay the cost of its hostile action.”
However, a Fox News reporter said in a post on X/Twitter that the US carried out strikes on Bandar Abbas and Qeshm, citing a senior US official.
Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported that defenses shot down “two hostile drones” over the port city of Bandar Abbas and Qeshm, an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency reported that three American Navy Destroyers were targeted in the Strait by Iranian naval forces.
“The destroyers of the US terror force are fleeing towards the Sea of Oman,” the outlet wrote, adding that the claimed attack was carried out by using “missiles and suicide drones.”
It was unclear when the incident happened.
The alleged incident was claimed following an attack by the US military on an Iranian oil tanker.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but on Wednesday, the US military said it had disabled an Iranian-flagged oil tanker that was trying to sail towards an Iranian port.
The US military said that US forces hit the tanker’s rudder with a F-18 fighter jet.