Tehran:
The Iranian navy has claimed to have captured one of many US navy’s “most trendy, sensible” unmanned submarines on the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz. In a press release revealed by Sepah Information, the official information outlet of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the navy stated it captured the unmanned underwater automobile — recognized as a Dive-LD — in a fancy intelligence operation.
The submersible automobile is supplied with the world’s most trendy subsurface automobile expertise, it stated, and launched a video of the captured automobile.
Footage launched by Iranian media exhibits what the IRGC claims is an American Dive-LD unmanned submarine captured at this time. Iran says the vessel is now in its possession. pic.twitter.com/POWlEHHnd5
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In a separate assertion, the IRGC additionally claimed that its air defence techniques had shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Strait of Hormuz, Sepah Information reported.
US Response
Following the IRGC’s announcement, the US navy additionally launched a press release saying one in all its underwater drones “malfunctioned” over a day earlier throughout a survey of regional waters, with out mentioning whether or not the machine was the one seized by Iran.
“It was surveying regional waters in help of ongoing operations. The faulty drone was an older mannequin that neither collected delicate information nor carried any categorized sonar or radar gear,” a Pentagon spokesperson stated.
The US navy is investing closely in unmanned naval techniques, together with underwater and floor vessels, because it seeks cheaper methods to watch huge areas of ocean, collect intelligence, and observe adversary ships and submarines with out placing sailors in danger.
In keeping with Anduril’s web site, Dive-LD can function for as much as 10 days with out returning to base and is designed to dive to depths of as a lot as 6,000 meters (19,700 ft). Dive-LD models value about $2.5 million every, U.S. navy information website DefenseScoop reported in 2024.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) additionally claimed that its troops have destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers following assaults on a US warship by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. The US strikes have been in response to 2 Iranian efforts to hit the warship with ballistic missiles over the previous two days, the CENTCOM stated in a social media submit.
In the meantime, the US Division of the Treasury has put 27 Iranian airways on its Specifically Designated Nationals Listing, thus concentrating on all remaining Iranian airways in a bid to step up strain on Iran. The division claimed that “Iran’s business airways have lengthy supported the Iranian regime’s destabilising actions,” with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps utilizing ostensibly personal airways for the procurement and transport of weapons and the ferrying of personnel.
The United States first sanctioned Iranian airline Mahan Air in October 2011 and focused a number of firms seen as basic gross sales brokers of Mahan Air on July 30.
The sanctions additionally focused “covert entrance firms, overseas intermediaries, and misleading transshipment routes that Iran depends on to acquire US-origin plane and delicate expertise,” in line with a press release.
Iran’s Defiance
In the meantime, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian stated that the nation will proceed its resistance with power till the “aggressors” are introduced to finish remorse.
In a submit on social media platform X, he additionally highlighted Iran’s opposition to struggle.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has all the time been against struggle and thought of the preservation of the individuals’s pursuits and guaranteeing the (West Asia) area’s safety to lie in refraining from warmongering,” Pezeshkian stated.
“Nonetheless, simply because it has courageously risen to defend towards aggression as much as at the present time, Iran will proceed this resistance with power till the aggressors are introduced to finish remorse and can stay the guardian of the rights of the good Iranian individuals,” he added.
US-Iran Struggle
On February 28, Israel and the US launched joint assaults on Tehran and different Iranian cities. Iran responded with waves of missile and drone assaults concentrating on Israel and US bases and property within the area and tightened its grip on the Strait of Hormuz.
On June 18, the US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on ending the struggle within the area. Underneath the MoU, they have been scheduled to carry negotiations inside a interval of 60 days, which ended on August 17, to succeed in a closing settlement, however the talks’ destiny stays unclear following the current escalations between the 2 nations.
