IRGC claims hits on two US destroyers and eight tankers; CENTCOM says no warship struck
Merged two duplicate entries, added the US military's denial, and removed a detail we could not confirm.
Corrected the time from 9:00 AM Tehran time, Sep 9, 2026 to 4:00 AM Tehran time, Sep 9, 2026; corrected the headline (it read "Iran claims strikes on 10 ships including two US vessels near Strait of Hormuz"); revised the summary; revised the context note; changed the confidence label from reported to unverified; reclassified it from military to military-strike; updated the sourcing note; merged 2 duplicate entries into this one ("IRGC claims strikes on two US Navy destroyers and eight oil tankers in Gulf", "IRGC says it struck two US vessels and eight oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz"); added 4 sources: Al Jazeera live blog, Reuters via Yahoo News.
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What changed: Corrected the time from 9:00 AM Tehran time, Sep 9, 2026 to 4:00 AM Tehran time, Sep 9, 2026; corrected the headline (it read "Iran claims strikes on 10 ships including two US vessels near Strait of Hormuz"); revised the summary; revised the context note; changed the confidence label from reported to unverified; reclassified it from military to military-strike; updated the sourcing note; merged 2 duplicate entries into this one ("IRGC claims strikes on two US Navy destroyers and eight oil tankers in Gulf", "IRGC says it struck two US vessels and eight oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz"); added 4 sources: Al Jazeera live blog, Reuters via Yahoo News.
Evidence: yahoo.com, foreignpolicy.com, aljazeera.com, aljazeera.com, aljazeera.com