The governor of Iran's Sirik County said an American missile barrage struck a cruise ship in the Gulf of Oman, according to Iran's Mehr news agency. The claim is unverified by independent sources and follows days of unconfirmed reports of US strikes along Iran's southern coast.
The governor of Sirik County in Iran's Hormozgan Province told the state-aligned Mehr news agency that a US missile salvo struck a cruise ship in the Gulf of Oman. The report, relayed through a single source citing Mehr, has no independent confirmation. It comes amid a string of unverified claims this week regarding US strikes on Iran's southern coast, including reports of attacks near Sirik itself — a coastal county in the Strait of Hormuz region. As The Zioneer has reported, Iran's Mehr agency previously claimed on June 8 that the US struck seven sites on the coast, and the provincial governor's office accused Washington of deliberately bombing civilian water infrastructure in Sirik on June 10. The IRGC has also claimed to have fired warning shots at US warships in the Gulf of Oman earlier this month. None of these reports have been corroborated by Western or independent sources. The cruise ship claim remains an unverified allegation from an Iranian official via state media.
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