00:09Iran just made one of the most explosive military claims in years. Its Army's Public Relations
00:16Office announced that on the night of May 8, Iranian forces launched eight cruise missiles
00:22and 24 suicide drones directly at three U.S. Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz,
00:30and they say it worked. They say American warships caught fire. According to Iran's military
00:37statement, this was a large-scale coordinated strike, 68 minutes from first launch to last
00:44impact. The weapons? NOR-type anti-ship cruise missiles and Arash-2 kamikaze drones, the kind
00:51that don't come back. The targets? USS Truxton, USS Mason, and USS Rafael Peralta.
00:59Three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. Iran claims one cruise missile and three drones scored direct
01:06hits, triggering fires aboard the vessels. They're calling it a precise combined operation and framing
01:13it as retaliation for what they say were U.S. ceasefire violations and an attack on an Iranian oil
01:20tanker. Now, here's where it gets complicated. U.S. Central Command flatly denies the damage claims.
01:28CENTCOM says every incoming missile, every drone, every fast-attack boat was intercepted and neutralized.
01:35No hits, no fires, no casualties. And the U.S. didn't just defend, it struck back. American forces hit
01:44Iranian missile and drone launch sites, command centers, and facilities near Bandar Abbas and
01:50Keshem Island. So you have two completely opposite accounts of the same 68 minutes. Here's the honest
01:57answer. Right now, nobody outside those ships knows for certain. No confirmed visuals of damaged U.S.
02:05destroyers have come from independent sources. No sailors have spoken publicly. Iran's claims are
02:11standard operating procedure for its domestic audience. Projecting strength is part of the
02:16playbook. But the sheer specificity of the Iranian statement, 8 missiles, 24 drones, 68 minutes, named
02:24ships, is unusual. Militaries don't typically invent that level of operational detail without something
02:32to point to. The fog of war is thick. Satellite imagery and thermal data may eventually tell the real
02:39story. Whether Iran's claims hold up or not, the fact that this exchange happened at all is staggering.
02:45We are watching Iranian forces and U.S. Navy destroyers engage in live combat in the Strait
02:52of Hormuz, the waterway that carries 20 percent of the world's oil. Iran still has over a hundred
02:59fast-attack speedboats in active formation in these waters. Satellite imagery confirmed it just tonight.
03:06The escalation ladder here has very few rungs left before something irreversible happens.
03:12Eight missiles, 24 drones, three American destroyers. One country says its ships are on fire. The other
03:19says nothing got through. What's certain is this. The Persian Gulf just became the most dangerous
03:26stretch of water on Earth. We're going to keep watching this closely. Every update, every satellite
03:32image, every statement.
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