{"id":65981,"date":"2026-06-01T06:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/us-says-it-struck-iranian-drone-command-sites-at-the-weekend\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:13:38","slug":"us-says-it-struck-iranian-drone-command-sites-at-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/us-says-it-struck-iranian-drone-command-sites-at-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"US Says It Struck Iranian Drone Command Sites At The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jun 1: The U.S. said it conducted \u201cself-defense \u200bstrikes\u201d on Iranian radar and \u200cdrone control sites in Iran\u2019s Goruk and Qeshm Island at the weekend in what \u200bit said was a \u200bresponse to \u201caggressive\u201d actions from Tehran.<br \/>The U.S. \u2060Central Command said in a \u200bpost on X that Iran had \u200bshot down a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters.<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM said U.S. \u200bfighter aircraft responded by eliminating \u200bIranian air defenses, a ground control station, \u200cand \u2060two one-way attack drones.<br \/>It added that no U.S. military personnel were harmed.<br \/>The two countries had traded strikes \u200blast week \u200bas \u2060well with Iran targeting a U.S. air base after \u200bthe U.S. military carried \u200bout \u2060what a Washington official said were strikes targeting an Iranian drone \u2060operation \u200bnear the Strait of \u200bHormuz. (Agencies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jun 1: The U.S. said it conducted \u201cself-defense \u200bstrikes\u201d on Iranian radar and \u200cdrone control sites in Iran\u2019s Goruk and Qeshm Island at the weekend in what \u200bit said was a \u200bresponse to \u201caggressive\u201d actions from Tehran.The U.S. \u2060Central Command said in a \u200bpost on X that Iran had \u200bshot down a U.S. MQ-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}