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US and Iran trade airstrikes in sharpest escalation of 2026
A US drone was downed over Iranian airspace overnight, hours before Washington confirmed a third wave of strikes on southern and coastal Iran — the largest exchange since fighting resumed.
Desk note. Monexus has reported the convergence of four independent Telegram monitoring channels on a US–Iran exchange in the early UTC hours of 10 June 2026, with the asymmetry that the US side is being quoted on record and the Iranian side is, for now, being read through a downed airframe. We have not yet reported casualty figures, target lists, or official Iranian statements, because the open-source record does not yet contain them. We will backfill as the primary record firms up.
Wire provenance
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- https://t.me/WarMonitors
- https://t.me/rnintel
- https://t.me/DDGeopolitics
- https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator
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