BREAKING: Iran Claims Downing US MQ-9 Drone, Supreme Leader Warns Trump "No Safe Haven Left" in Gulf

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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed it successfully shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone and engaged multiple American aircraft over the Persian Gulf, signaling a severe military escalation that threatens to unravel a fragile, multi-month ceasefire. According to official state media reports, Iranian air defense systems intercepted the long-endurance surveillance UAV following an alleged airspace intrusion, while simultaneously opening fire on an RQ-4 drone and an American F-35 stealth fighter jet. The Pentagon has downplayed the claims but confirmed that U.S. Central Command forces executed targeted, "self-defense" maritime strikes inside southern Iran to neutralize immediate rocket launch sites and watercraft attempting to lay naval mines. The tactical flare-up was underscored by a defiant diplomatic salvo from Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who warned that regional Gulf nations would no longer serve as geographic shields for the Pentagon and declared th

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