Iran claims downing US fighter jet, targeting Israel's Ben Gurion airport 

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Thursday its air defence has shot down a US F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet near the country's southeastern border.

In a statement published on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said the American fighter jet was brought down early Wednesday by "modern" air defence systems of its Aerospace Division. However, the US Central Command soon denied Iran's claim, calling it "baseless and not true."

In another statement, the IRGC said it launched on early Thursday "heavy" Khorramshahr-4 missiles belonging to its Aerospace Division towards Tel Aviv as well as the Ben Gurion Airport and the 27th Squadron of the Israeli Air Force located inside it.

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It said the launched missiles carried 1-tonne warheads, adding that it also hit 20 US military targets in the West Asia region as well as the countries of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

Tehran has dubbed the Khorramshahr-4 "one of the largest warhead configurations developed within Iran," describing it as one of the country's advanced medium- to long-range ballistic missiles, with an estimated range of about 2,000 km.

The US-Iran conflict entered its sixth day on Thursday, as Iran's military announced it had launched a drone attack against a US military site in Kuwait.

The Iranian army also said it launched a drone attack on a US site in the Iraqi Kurdistan city of Erbil. "The headquarters of the American aggressor forces in Erbil, Iraq, was attacked by the army's ground forces' attack drones," the army said in a statement broadcast by state TV.

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Meanwhile, Iran's state-run Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs has said that the death toll from US and Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic has risen to 1,230.
AFP was not in a position to verify the toll.

"The number of martyrs from the aggressive military attack carried out by criminal America and the usurping Israeli regime against the Islamic homeland had reached 1,230 as of March 5," the foundation said, according to Iran's official IRNA news agency.