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According to IRGC statements, the Ghadr-380 missile was launched from Iranian territory and successfully struck the destroyer more than six hundred kilometres away, an assertion designed to demonstrate Iran’s ability to threaten US naval assets far beyond the Persian Gulf littoral.
The IRGC further claimed that the missile strike triggered extensive fires aboard both the destroyer and the refuelling tanker, although no independent imagery has yet confirmed damage to multiple vessels within the alleged strike area.