Iran claims it has shot down F-35 fighter jet as Trump boasts about bridge strike
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The Iranian military has claimed two US fighter jets have been downed including a F-35 over central Iran.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the feared military arm of the Iranian regime, said the F-35 was shot down by its air defences with the pilot unlikely to survive as a result, according to a statement carried by Mehr news agency.
Iran said it also attacked an ‘enemy’ fighter jet over Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz but US military refuted the ‘false claim’ which it said had been made ‘at least half a dozen times’.
Last night Donald Trump boasted about an attack on Iran’s tallest bridge yesterday and warned power plants will become the next targets as the US steps up its attacks.
The US military ‘hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants,’ Trump wrote on social media.
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