The claim was made by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which said the advanced American warplane was brought down while flying over central Iran.
Iranian authorities have claimed the destruction of a second U.S. F-35 fighter jet, intensifying already heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington amid ongoing regional hostilities.
The claim was made by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which said the advanced American warplane was brought down while flying over central Iran.
A report by Al Jazeera, citing a Telegram post from the Fars News Agency affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stated that the jet was “completely destroyed and crashed.”
No immediate information was available on the fate of the pilot due to the severity of the damage.
Further amplifying the claim, Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported that it was unlikely the pilot survived the incident, stating that ejection may not have been possible because of the “violent explosion” that accompanied the crash.
The reported incident, if confirmed, would mark a significant escalation, as the F-35 is one of the United States’ most advanced stealth fighter jets and a critical component of its air power.
However, the U.S. military has yet to corroborate the claim.
Notably, it had earlier dismissed a similar assertion by the IRGC that a U.S. fighter jet had been shot down.
This escalation comes despite warnings and threats by Donald Trump to cripple Iran's critical infrastructures if a ceasefire deal was not reached especially for the reopening of Strait of Hormuz which has become a bone of controversy for a long while.
Iran’s IRGC had earlier pushed back strongly against remarks Trump on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, declaring that the vital waterway remains under its firm control and will not be influenced by what it described as “ridiculous displays” from Washington.
In a statement, the IRGC said the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is “firmly and dominantly” under its control and “will not be opened to the enemies of this nation by the ridiculous displays of the US President”.
The response follows Trump’s recent claim that Iran’s leadership had requested a ceasefire amid the ongoing hostilities, while tying any potential US consideration to the reopening of the strategic oil transit route.
“Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE! We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!” Trump said.
The United States President also claimed that the war in Iran will end in two to three weeks claiming United States could bring down global oil prices by disengaging from Iran.
He said this while speaking in response to a question by journalists in White House on how his leadership would address rising oil prices, Trump argued that a US exit from Iran would have an immediate impact on the market.
"All we have to do is to leave Iran and we would be doing that very soon and they will become tumbling down,” he said.
He also linked his position to broader security concerns, referencing tensions over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and justifying past military actions.
"Stock prices were up almost a record, I said to the American people it's time we make a detour because we have a mad man who wants nuclear weapon. If we did not knock him out with a B2-bomber, we would have had a nuclear weapon that would have been used before this, before today,” he said.
Trump suggested that failure to act decisively could have led to catastrophic consequences, insisting that his approach prevented a potential nuclear threat.
"You would not be standing there asking that question. I would say that within two or three weeks we will leave," he said.
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