{"id":2679,"date":"2026-03-04T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2679\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:00:20","slug":"israeli-f-35i-shoots-down-iranian-fighter-jet-over-tehran-amid-expanded-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2679\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli F\u201135I shoots down Iranian fighter jet over Tehran amid expanded strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli F-35I \u201cAdir\u201d fighter jet shot down an Iranian Air Force YAK-130 aircraft over Tehran, the Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday, marking what it described as the first-ever shootdown of a manned fighter by an F-35 platform.\ud83d\udee9\ufe0fIRANIAN JET SHOT DOWN: An IAF F-35I \u201cAdir\u201d fighter jet shot down an Iranian Air Force YAK-130 fighter jet.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first shootdown in history of a manned fighter aircraft by an F-35 \u201cAdir\u201d fighter jet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDF\/status\/2029115112347304191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p> The aerial engagement comes amid a wider Israeli offensive targeting Iran\u2019s internal security infrastructure. The IDF said it carried out a series of strikes on Basij and internal security command centres in Tehran, which it claimed are used by the Iranian regime to maintain control across the country.<br \/>According to the Israeli military, the strikes also hit missile launchers and related systems.<br \/>In a separate development, Reuters reported citing security sources that a drone strike targeted the headquarters of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in the Kurdistan region of Iraq&#8217;s Kurdistan.<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Israeli F-35I \u201cAdir\u201d fighter jet shot down an Iranian Air Force YAK-130 aircraft over Tehran, the Israel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2129,2132,2128,2127,34,1747,2125,2130,2124,2131,69,2126],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-basij-command-center","tag-drone-strike-kurdistan","tag-f-35i-adir","tag-idf-airstrike","tag-iran","tag-iran-israel-conflict","tag-iranian-fighter-jet","tag-iranian-missile-systems","tag-israeli-f-35","tag-middle-east-military-tension","tag-tehran","tag-tehran-airstrike"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116170327932770561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}