Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed Tuesday that it shot down a U.S. MQ-9 drone and claimed that an RQ-4 drone and an F-35 fighter jet also entered Iranian airspace before retreating.
The aircraft entered Iranian airspace over the Gulf region, the IRGC said in a statement carried by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.
The U.S. aircraft "entered Iranian airspace in the Persian Gulf region and air defense units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ... identified and shot down an MQ-9 drone," the statement said.
The IRGC "also fired upon an RQ-4 drone and an intruding F-35 fighter jet," the statement added, without specifying when the incidents took place.
The force also said it reserves the right "to respond to any ceasefire violation by the aggressor U.S. army.”
