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3 Sept 2026, 16:45

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📝 What do we know about the attack on the wedding ceremony in Sirik?

🔹Simultaneously with the U.S. airstrikes on Sirik County on the night of September 1, 2026, an explosion destroyed a house in the port of Kuhestak where a wedding ceremony was taking place. According to published reports, five people have died so far, including a four-year-old child, and 65 others were injured.

🔹Images from the scene, the sound of several explosions in the CCTV footage, CENTCOM's statement, and the lack of denial of the attack by the spokesperson of this entity strengthen the attribution of the attacks that night to the U.S.

🔹At the same time, social media claimed that the explosion of the house was the result of a "failed missile launch by the IRGC"; however, no official reports or credible evidence have confirmed this claim so far.

🔹Some accounts have shared old or unrelated videos to support this claim. The only similar report regarding a failed IRGC launch that night pertains to Khomein in Markazi Province and has no connection to Sirik in southern Iran.

🔹Despite the evidence of a U.S. attack on Sirik, it is still unclear exactly what projectile struck the house where the wedding was being held.

🔹Meanwhile, the CCTV footage captures the sound of a drone, and the bride's father also mentions hearing the sound of drones in a video interview; evidence that strengthens the possibility of simultaneous use of missiles and drones in the operation.

🔹Additionally, pieces of the SLAM-ER cruise missile have been seen in the area, but the level of destruction of the house does not seem consistent with the complete detonation of the missile's 360-kilogram warhead.

🔹It is possible that the house was targeted with smaller munitions (for example, the Lucas drone with a warhead of about 18 kilograms), and the SLAM-ER parts may relate to another impact in the same vicinity (a telecommunications tower approximately 130 meters away).

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