The United States and Iran have produced directly contradictory accounts of a military confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday night, with the two versions agreeing on almost nothing beyond the fact that an incident occurred and that US forces struck a site near Bandar Abbas. The US account (earlier here), confirmed by an official to Newsmax, describes an Iranian drone offensive. Four one-way attack drones were intercepted by US Central Command forces after they posed a threat in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz. A fifth drone launch was preempted by a strike on an Iranian ground control station in ... (full story)