IRGC Claims Shot Down US MQ-9 Drone in Strait of Hormuz
In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 photo, a speedboat of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard trains a weapon toward the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. Global stock markets were subdued Monday while the price of oil climbed as tensions in the Persian Gulf escalated after Iran’s seizure of a British oil tanker on Friday. 
TEHRAN (Sputnik) — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday that it had shot down a US drone of MQ-9 model in the airspace above the Strait of Hormuz. «An MQ-9 drone was intercepted and shot down by the IRGC’s new advanced air defense system over the Strait of Hormuz,» the IRGC said on its Telegram channel. US President Donald Trump announced on July 8 that the ceasefire reached with Iran on the night of June 18 was no longer in effect. The US military has carried out several attacks on Iran since July 8. US Central Command claimed the attacks were in retaliation for Iranian actions against commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian military responded with strikes on US bases in several countries across the Middle East. Tehran also accused Washington of violating the ceasefire agreement.
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