Tehran, Nov. 14 -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed that it intercepted and destroyed the 17th American MQ-1 drone over Qeshm Island, while the Iranian Navy claimed that two oil tankers caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday after allegedly striking naval mines in restricted waters, according to Iranian news agency IRIB Telegram.

In a statement, the Public Relations department of the IRGC said that the American MQ-1 drone was intercepted and destroyed at around 2:30 pm (local time) on Saturday by its "new advanced aerospace defence system" over Qeshm Island.

The IRGC further claimed that the incident marked another failure of "enemy reconnaissance missions", stating that an "invading US military recon...