A single Arabic-language desk on Telegram reports that US A-10 attack aircraft struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) speedboats near Larak Island in the Persian Gulf. The report is unverified and comes from one channel aligned with an Iranian proxy-affiliated source.
An Arabic-affiliated the source (Abu Saleh Arabic Desk) has reported that US A-10 attack aircraft targeted IRGC speedboats near Larak Island, a site previously used by the Guards for naval activity. The report is unverified and lacks detail on timing, number of vessels hit, or extent of damage.
The report comes amid a period of heavy US aerial operations over Iraq and the Persian Gulf, as well as US-Iran naval encounters including earlier IRGC 'warning shots' at US warships in the Gulf of Oman on June 5. Multiple sources over the past week have reported US strike aircraft activity in Iraqi airspace, and the Houthi-aligned media has reported clashes at sea.
Larak Island is located near Qeshm Island, where multiple explosions were reported and linked by some sources to IRGC speedboat movements. The Pentagon has not commented. The single-source nature of this report places it at the unverified end of the spectrum; no independent confirmation is yet available.
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