New Delhi, April 5 -- Hours after US President Donald Trump said US Armed Forces had ''rescued and retrieved'' two missing pilots whose F-15 fighter jet was shot down by Iranian forces on Saturday, an Iranian Army spokesman claimed on Sunday that they had ''foiled'' a US attempt to rescue a downed pilot.
Spokesman of the Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters of Iran claimed that two Black Hawk helicopters and one C-130 military transport plane of the US had been shot down in a coordinated operation by Iranian forces, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Army, Basij units, and police forces in south of Isfahan in Central Iran.
(The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (KCHQ) is a top-level Iranian military command b...