IRAN MEDIA: HOSTILE PROJECTILES HIT SIRIK. BLASTS HEARD MINAB, QESHM.

WAR DESK — Claim-split Extra. Iranian state media, as wrapped by Anadolu Agency and Al Jazeera on Thursday, 10 September 2026, report overnight and early-morning activity along Iran’s southern Hormozgan coast: “hostile” or “enemy” projectiles into Sirik, and explosion sounds across Minab and Qeshm Island. This Extra attributes those claims. It does not name who fired. It does not invent a casualty or damage ledger for this window. It is not the Hormuz tankers Extra.

ATTRIBUTED — Anadolu Agency, Istanbul, 10 September 2026: several explosions were reported early Thursday in coastal areas of southern Iran, including Sirik, Minab, and Qeshm Island, according to Iranian media. Iran’s official IRNA news agency, as carried by AA, said several areas in Sirik were hit by “hostile projectiles,” without providing further details. Fars News Agency, also via AA, reported explosions in Sirik, Minab, and on Qeshm Island, citing local authorities as saying the sounds came from the direction of the sea. Extra prints those sentences as attributed wraps. It does not scrape IRNA or Fars into product copy.

Hostile projectiles — Iranian media claim. Actor open. Toll open. Labels on.

ATTRIBUTED — Al Jazeera’s 10 September Iran-war liveblog leads the same overnight picture: projectiles have hit several areas in Iran’s Sirik, with multiple explosions heard across the coastal region, including Minab County and Qeshm Island — Iranian state media report. That liveblog is attribution, not independent battlefield confirmation. Extra treats it as a second wire shelf carrying Iranian-media language, not a third-party survey of craters.

Prior-day line, kept separate. On Wednesday, AA notes, Fars separately reported that an explosion from the sea had been heard in southern parts of the Iranian city of Jask. That is a prior-day Fars line in the same AA wrap. Extra logs it as Wednesday colour. It does not fold Jask into Thursday’s Sirik projectile claim as one continuous strike sheet.

What is locked here — attribution chain only. Date window: early Thursday 10 September 2026 (AA), Al Jazeera liveblog same calendar day. Geography named: Sirik; Minab / Minab County; Qeshm Island. IRNA language via AA: “hostile projectiles” into several Sirik areas. Fars / local authorities via AA: explosion sounds; direction of the sea. Who fired: UNCONFIRMED. Casualties this window: UNCONFIRMED — no death or injury count in the AA or Al Jazeera wraps used here. Independent visual or third-party battle-damage confirmation: not established. Facility, street, aircraft, or ship hits: not established here.

Context is not proof. AA’s Thursday wrap places the reports amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States over the Strait of Hormuz, and notes a June memorandum that envisioned a deal to reopen the waterway. That is background on the waterway’s political clock. It is not evidence that a named foreign force launched Thursday’s alleged projectiles. Extra will not backfill “US,” “Israel,” or any other firer into this overnight window from tension colour alone.

Desk angle: labels on, ledgers split. Hormozgan’s coast and Qeshm sit on a watched maritime chokepoint. “Hostile” projectiles and “sounds from the sea” are claims, not an NTH Meridian finding that a named force struck named coordinates at a named hour. Three merge refusals: no firer invention — AA’s wrap does not name the launcher; no casualty invention from other Hormozgan incidents or the tanker ledger; no theatre merge with /war/us-strikes-iranian-tankers-jordan-retaliation, Kyiv Darnytskyi, Novorossiysk, or midterms–oil commentary. Separate clocks. Separate URLs.

Guardrails. The hero is a NASA Landsat 7 archival satellite composite of Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, public domain via Wikimedia Commons — region plate only, not overnight fire or impact imagery. VIDEO=no. Extra does not caption the still as blast aftermath and does not treat “sounds from the sea” as forensic origin proof. Watching, with labels: any IRNA/Fars update that adds a casualty figure or names an actor; any independent confirmation beyond Iranian state media; any official third-country acknowledgment or denial — logged on their own shelf, not merged into the tankers Extra.

CLAIM vs CONFIRMED. CONFIRMED as wire attribution only: AA and Al Jazeera carried Iranian-media reports of hostile/enemy projectiles into Sirik and explosion sounds in Minab and on Qeshm early Thursday 10 September 2026; IRNA “hostile projectiles” via AA; Fars/local authorities “from the direction of the sea” via AA; Wednesday Jask sea-direction sound as a separate prior-day line. UNCONFIRMED: firer; casualties; independent battle-damage survey; facility hits. FALSE framing — do not use: “Nth Meridian confirms a U.S./Israeli strike on Sirik” or any invented death toll. Nailed down, 10 September 2026, 02:50 GMT. PATH /war/iran-sirik-qeshm-projectiles-sep10. DESK_ID iran-sirik-qeshm-projectiles-sep10. Beat WAR / EXTRA. PHOTO: NASA Landsat 7 / Earth Observatory — Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Verification: Anadolu Agency; Al Jazeera liveblog; IRNA/Fars as wrapped — verification only. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent actors, casualties, or firers.

DESK_ID iran-sirik-qeshm-projectiles-sep10. Canonical /war/iran-sirik-qeshm-projectiles-sep10. Claim-split overnight 10 Sep 2026. Verification only: Anadolu Agency www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/explosions-reported-across-southern-iran-s-coastal-areas/4052676 ; Al Jazeera liveblog www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/9/10/iran-war-live-iran-media-says-sirik-areas-hit-with-hostile-projectiles ; IRNA/Fars claims as wrapped in those desks — do not republish. Photo: NASA Landsat 7 / Earth Observatory — Wikimedia Commons (public domain); archival Qeshm Island plate, not strike-day imagery. Distinct from /war/us-strikes-iranian-tankers-jordan-retaliation. VIDEO=no. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent actors, casualties, or firers.