{"id":27429,"date":"2026-03-19T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/27429\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:39:09","slug":"irgc-downs-orbiter-heron-drones-over-tehran-karaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/27429\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC Downs Orbiter, Heron Drones over Tehran, Karaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1270195\/irgc-downs-orbiter-heron-drones-over-tehran-karaj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/n01270195-b.jpg\" alt=\"IRGC Downs Orbiter, Heron Drones over Tehran, Karaj\" title=\"IRGC Downs Orbiter, Heron Drones over Tehran, Karaj\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it has shot down an Orbiter and a Heron drone, both armed, in the airspace of Iranian capital Tehran and Karaj, and has also intercepted a cruise missile in Qazvin.In a statement on Thursday, the IRGC announced that an Orbiter UAV was targeted and destroyed in the airspace of Tehran at 23:50 local time on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that an advanced Heron drone was also intercepted and shot down in the skies over Nazarabad in Karaj.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC said both of the military drones were armed and were shot down before any operation against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC added that its advanced modern air defense system has intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile in Koohin at Qazvin Province. It said the interception was carried out under the control of the integrated air defense network of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The US and the Zionist regime launched a large-scale unprovoked military campaign against Iran following the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, along with several senior military commanders and civilians on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks have involved extensive aerial strikes on both military and civilian locations across Iran, causing significant casualties and widespread damage to infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Iranian Armed Forces have carried out retaliatory operations, targeting American and Israeli positions in the occupied territories and at regional bases with waves of missiles and drones.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it has shot down an Orbiter and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10049,605,5079,12832,3758,592,11669,10712,684,3886,2684,11705,10047,711,687,721,3888,12830,595,12833,34,361,424,598,3884,3887,12831,2928,591,7660,12834,3885,3759,9152,69,596,599],"class_list":{"0":"post-27429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-orbiter","9":"tag-a","10":"tag-airspace","11":"tag-also","12":"tag-an","13":"tag-and","14":"tag-armed","15":"tag-both","16":"tag-capital","17":"tag-corps","18":"tag-cruise","19":"tag-down","20":"tag-downs","21":"tag-drone","22":"tag-drones","23":"tag-guards","24":"tag-has","25":"tag-heron","26":"tag-in","27":"tag-intercepted","28":"tag-iran","29":"tag-iranian","30":"tag-irgc","31":"tag-islam","32":"tag-islamic","33":"tag-it","34":"tag-karaj","35":"tag-missile","36":"tag-of","37":"tag-over","38":"tag-qazvin","39":"tag-revolution","40":"tag-said","41":"tag-shot","42":"tag-tehran","43":"tag-the","44":"tag-times"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116258482880904626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429","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=27429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}