This claim comes hours after US President Donald Trump says the American officer who went missing in Iran after the downing of his F-15E fighter jet has been rescued and is “now safe and sound”.
US-Israeli strikes have killed five fighters with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the country’s northwest, state media says, according to AFP.
“Following the brutal attacks of the American-Israeli enemy on the Moghan Plain… five IRGC fighters have attained martyrdom,” said Iran’s official IRNA news agency, citing a statement by the Guards in the northwestern Ardabil province.
Trump also warns that “all hell” will rain down on Iran if it does not reach a peace deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Monday. Tehran rejects what it calls a “helpless and nervous” ultimatum.
An Iranian drone attack has hit a storage tank at Bahrain’s main fuel facility, causing a fire to break out.
Iran says US-Israeli attacks have killed five people and wounded 170 at the Mahshahr Petrochemical Zone and more than 30 universities have been targeted since the beginning of the war.
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Iran’s military has said that the US operation to rescue a missing airman from a downed American fighter jet used an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan province, AFP reports.
“The so-called US military rescue operation, planned as a deception and escape mission at an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan under the pretext of recovering the pilot of a downed aircraft, was completely foiled,” said Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for the military’s central command, Khatam Al-Anbiya.
He added that “two C-130 military transport planes and two Black Hawk helicopters were destroyed” during the operation.