Nigeria, Nov. 3 -- The US has launched strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, hours before millions of Americans cast their votes in the country's midterm elections.

US officials described the strike as 'limited' and 'defensive.'

Iranian state media, IRNA, reported five explosions on the island on Monday. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) also said in a statement that it brought down two US MQM-170 drones, which it described as reconnaissance aircraft, south of Qeshm Island and a US MQ-9 drone east of the Strait of Hormuz, Al Jazeera reports.

Earlier on Monday, US President Donald Trump told reporters that he was in "no rush" to ramp up strikes on Iran, the BBC reports. The strikes occurred hours after that stat...