On Wednesday at noon, after a video circulated showing a fighter jet being shot down over Tehran, the Islamic Republic state media reposted it and claimed that Iran’s air defenses had downed a US F-15 fighter jet. Telegram channels close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also shared the footage, speculated about the pilot’s fate, and praised what they called a “show of strength” by Iran’s air defenses.
A few hours later, however, the Israeli military said in a statement that it had shot down an Iranian fighter jet over Tehran—specifically a Russian-made Yak-130—during strikes on designated military targets in the capital, using an F-35 Adir. Following the Israeli statement.
Iranian state news outlets deleted their posts, though some regime-linked Telegram channels removed the content later, due to disrupted communications, restricted access, and repeated air strikes on Tehran, but some IRGC-linked channels still keep it.
See previous report: IRGC Claim of 650 US Troops Killed or Wounded Proven False.
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