{"id":106473,"date":"2026-04-05T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=106473"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:07:51","slug":"iran-shoots-down-us-military-c-130-denies-claims-of-missing-pilot-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/iran-shoots-down-us-military-c-130-denies-claims-of-missing-pilot-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran shoots down US military C-130, denies claims of missing pilot recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have denied claims of the safe evacuation of the missing pilot, claiming that a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/news\/colombia-military-plane-crash-kills-66-four-missing-after-takeoff-disaster\/\">US military C-130<\/a> transport plane and two Black Hawk helicopters have been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Statements issued by the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the \u2018Faraja\u2019 (police commando unit) claimed that the US military has once again suffered a crushing defeat in the southern deserts of Isfahan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Faraja Information Center, special police forces have shot down a US C-130 support plane that invaded the holy land of the beloved homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Local sources say that the plane was trying to provide fuel to the attacking US planes when it was targeted in the southern region of Isfahan.<\/p>\n<p>The Revolutionary Guards&#8217; public relations department likened the incident to the 1980 Operation Tabas, calling President Trump a gambler and saying that the God of the Tabas deserts is still there today, having once again inflicted a humiliating defeat on the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have denied claims of the safe evacuation of the missing pilot, claiming that a US military C-130 transport plane and two Black Hawk helicopters have been destroyed. Statements issued by the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the \u2018Faraja\u2019 (police commando unit) claimed that the US military has once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":106475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[39358,39359],"class_list":["post-106473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-iran-shoots-down-us-military-c-130","tag-us-military-c-130"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106476,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106473\/revisions\/106476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}