Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has captured an unmanned US submarine near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. Multiple outlets report the IRGC made the claim early Tuesday, describing the capture as an intelligence and operational action at dawn.
Iranian state-linked reporting says the device is “modern” and “smart,” and it will publish images in the coming hours. It is described as unmanned and focused on subsurface roles such as reconnaissance and surveillance, seabed mapping, and mine-related detection or inspection, including work involving submarine cables and pipelines.
The outlets agree on the core claim: the IRGC says it seized a US unmanned submarine near the Strait of Hormuz. They differ mainly in tone and framing, with some calling it a major escalation, while the underlying description of the event and the IRGC statement content remain consistent across reports.
