{"id":490749,"date":"2026-06-13T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/490749\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:08:09","slug":"centcom-us-shot-down-iranian-drones-attacking-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/490749\/","title":{"rendered":"CENTCOM: US shot down Iranian drones attacking ships in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States military shot down several Iranian suicide drones in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in an X\/Twitter post on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The drones were an attempt by the regime to target commercial vessels transiting the strait, CENTCOM said.<\/p>\n

CENTCOM added that traffic flow through the Hormuz “continues unimpeded” and that the critical waterway “remains open for transit.”<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Iranian media reported Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had fired drones at Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem Air Base<\/a> in retaliation for US strikes on Iranian military assets on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Additional Iranian strikes were reported in Jordan, with the IRGC claiming to have fired four missiles at the US al-Azraq base, claiming the base housed F-35 fighter jet hangars and a command-and-control center.<\/p>\n

In addition, alert sirens sounded in Bahrain on Wednesday, according to the country’s Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n

The IRGC warned on Thursday that they were prepared to deliver a “crushing and decisive” response to any additional US strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump<\/a> warned Iran on Friday against firing more drones at ships attempting to transit the strait, saying Tehran “better get their act together.”<\/p>\n

Also on Thursday, Iran’s state news site WANA reported an IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Brig.-Gen. Majid Mousavi as threatening the Middle East with harsh consequences if the US destabilized the Hormuz.<\/p>\n

“Will you make the sacred Strait of Hormuz unsafe?” said Mousavi. “We will turn the entire region into hell for you from across Iran.”<\/p>\n

Tzvi Jasper, Goldie Katz, and Danya Saperstein contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States military shot down several Iranian suicide drones in the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21754,42,87,53065,43,124255,114994,40,38,41,39,2586],"class_list":["post-490749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-drone-attack","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-news","tag-ship","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}