Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a statement on the morning of June 20 claiming that it had shot down an American drone over Iranian territory. US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed the incident shortly thereafter, but disputed Tehran's assertions about its location when struck by an Iranian surface-to air-missile.
The IRGC's media team issued the statement, announcing that a Global Hawk drone had been shot down near Hormozgan province, in the south near the Gulf of Oman, opposite the Mobarak Mountains. Also, according to the statement, the drone had been launched from a US airbase in the Persian Gulf and was flying from the Strait of Hormuz toward the Iranian port city of Chabahar. The IRGC said the drone was collecting information, spying on Iran, when it was shot down in Iranian airspace.