An American fighter jet has been shot down over Iran, reports the government in Iran according to Iranian media.
An American fighter jets have been shot down over Iran.
This is reported by the regime in Iran on Friday morning, according to the Iranian news agency Mehr, writes the Reuters news agency.
It is unlikely that the pilot survived, it continues.
The alleged shooting down has not been immediately commented on by the American side. However, an unnamed US official confirms to Reuters that a US fighter jet has been shot down and that a rescue operation is underway.
According to Iranian media, the country’s military is also looking for the plane’s pilot, for whom a reward has also been promised, writes AFP.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says, according to the news agency dpa, that it is an American fighter plane of the F-35 type, which is one of the most advanced and high-tech fighter planes.
However, several sources with military insight point out, according to the news agency on social media, that the photos Iran has published of the wreckage from the plane should show an F-15 fighter jet.
It is probably the second time that Iran has hit a US warplane since the US and Israel started the war in Iran on 28 February.
Two weeks ago, a fighter jet had to make an emergency landing after a mission over Iran.
This was confirmed by Tim Hawkins, spokesman for the US military’s central command, Centcom, at the time to the media CNN. He said at the time that the incident would be investigated.
On March 19, unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN that the plane had most likely been hit by Iranian combat fire.
A total of 13 American soldiers have lost their lives in the war prior to Friday’s announcement from Iran about the downed fighter jet.
On the night of Friday, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened to expand the American attacks to also include Iranian power plants.
It happened after the United States on Thursday allegedly attacked a highway bridge that connects Iran’s capital, Tehran, with the million-strong city of Karaj.
– Our military, which is the largest and most powerful in the entire world, has not even begun to destroy what is left in Iran, Trump wrote on his social media, Truth Social.
– Now it’s the bridges’ turn, and then the power plants. The new regime’s leadership knows what needs to be done, and it needs to be done quickly, he adds.
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