Unconfirmed reports from Iran claim that four Revolutionary Guards members were killed in American strikes in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

The U.S. confirmed the strikes earlier today, saying it acted to defend its forces. 

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday that it shot down a US MQ-9 drone and claimed that an RQ-4 drone and an F-35 fighter jet also entered Iranian airspace before retreating. The aircraft entered Iranian airspace over the Gulf region, the IRGC said in a statement carried by Iranian state media. The IRGC has warned that it has the right to respond proportionally to ceasefire violations.