Ebrahim Zolfaghari issued a televised warning on Saturday, saying that “America and the Zionists will pay the price for every single drop of unjustly shed blood and the compensation for the damages inflicted.”
Zolfaghari stated that Iran’s air defence systems had intercepted multiple aerial threats. He said that two MQ-9 Reaper drones were shot down over Firuzabad and Bandar Abbas, while another aircraft was intercepted in the skies over
Tabriz.
According to the spokesperson, the total number of drones destroyed so far had reached 112 aircraft of different types, including combat, reconnaissance and suicide drones.
He linked the defensive actions to broader military operations, stating that the armed forces of Iran—including the army, the aerospace and naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah—had carried out the 45th wave of “Operation True Promise 4.”