US EditionIran Claims Downing of US F-18 Fighter Jet Near Chabahar; CENTCOM Denies
Iran claims to have downed a U.S. F/A-18 near Chabahar using advanced air defenses, but U.S. Central Command calls it a digital fabrication amid ongoing regional tensions.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have targeted a US F-18 fighter jet near Chabahar, releasing a video showing the event.
- US Central Command denied that any US fighter jets, including an F-18, have been shot down by Iran recently.
- Previously, Iran claimed to have downed US F-15 jets and damaged a US F-35 stealth fighter, but these claims were refuted or not definitively confirmed by CENTCOM and US officials.
- The conflicting reports occur amid ongoing conflict and negotiations between the US and Iran, with the US proposing terms to de-escalate tensions, which Iran has hesitated to accept.
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The conflict in the Middle East has been going on for almost four weeks. In recent days, however, the issue of a ceasefire has been discussed a lot. However, talks about it are taking place only through intermediaries, mainly Pakistan. The Iranian leadership has announced that it does not consider such contact to be peace negotiations and has no interest in them.
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Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari announced that an American F-18 fighter jet was shot down near Chabahar by Iran’s air defence systems. According to the statement, the interception was carried out by the naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under an integrated air defence network. However, US Central Command swiftly denied the claim, stating that no U.S. fighter jet had been shot down. The incident adds to a grow…
The war in the Middle East is also a war of accounts and information.In the last few hours, the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Iran has spread the information that its military forces have shot down an F/A-18 U.S. fighter aircraft over the Chabahar area thanks to missiles from its air defence systems.Revolutionary guards have repeated on several occasions that it also reached the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier with ballistic missiles, crui…
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