Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Thursday claimed it destroyed three US F-35 fighter jets and damaged three more in a missile strike on Jordan's al-Azraq airbase, according to Iran's state-run Fars News Agency.
The IRGC said the strike was carried out in retaliation for what it described as a US attack on Iran's Qeshm island that allegedly killed two parents and their child.
In a statement addressed to Jordan, the IRGC said its aerospace force targeted a maintenance shed and aircraft ramp at al-Azraq airbase, which it claimed hosts US F-35 fighter jets, using several ballistic missiles.
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"The operation completely destroyed three F-35 aircraft and caused heavy damage to three others," the IRGC said, according to Fars.
The force also claimed that "a number of enemy officers and technical and maintenance personnel were also killed in this attack."
"Our region is no place for the infanticidal army that cruelly slaughters innocent families in the middle of the night while they sleep," the IRGC said.
It added that its campaign, along with Jordan's, would continue until "the last American occupier is expelled from the Islamic lands."
Earlier, semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that three of its personnel were killed in a US missile attack
The IRGC's Zanjan province branch, Ansar al-Mahdi, identified the slain fighters as Mahmoud Mollajabari, Mohammadreza Cheraghi and Jamal Amiri. It said they died on July 30 while “defending Iran's borders and people” in what it described as a “brutal attack by the criminal terrorist regime of the United States”.
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The statement said that IRGC offered condolences to the supreme leader, the families of the deceased, and the Iranian public, while condemning the strike.
Meanwhile, Al- Jazeera reported that Jordan has condemned the Iranian attack on Kuwait that killed one person after it hit a building belonging to a Chinese company.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement on X that the attack was a “flagrant violation” of Kuwait's sovereignty, a “threat to its security and stability and the safety of its territories, and a blatant breach of international law and the United Nations Charter”.
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