Iran’s Air Defenses Down 2 Israeli Warplanes, Female Pilot Captured - Defense news - Tasnim News Agency
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Two Israeli warplanes were shot down by Iran’s air defenses.

The Israeli jets were downed on Friday. According to reports, the pilot of one of these warplanes, who is a woman, has been captured.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has vowed a crushing response to Israel’s acts of aggression.

The Israeli regime attacked a number of residential neighborhoods of Tehran and locations in other parts of Iran in the early hours of Friday.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 days ago

    Yes. Google and other DDG are awful at finding any article and quote from the past when it comes to Israel except if it says ‘Israel has the right to defend itself am yisrael chai Hamas terrorists’. AI does not always get it correct but it makes far fewer mistakes and will actually show me articles not from NYT or Reuters, which Google frequently literally refuses to do even when verbatim typing a sentence from that site.

    According to the same AI Tehrantimes is not Iranian state media, whereas Tasnim is. A quick search confirms this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Times

    Furthermore Forbes quotes Tehrantimes. Tehramtimes attributes the claim to an IRGC general Ebrahim Jabbari . Hovewer reading the Tehrantimes article, it only claims what title says this in the summary which weird. Now here is what is likely the full quote which I found by searching on Ebrahim Jabbari 20:

    Iranwire:

    Ebrahim Jabbari, an advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed, "Based on the information received, it is likely that around 20 Israeli fighter jets were destroyed." However, no evidence was provided to support it.

    “Even if the exact number is lower, the key point is that we were able to inflict heavy blows on their security, military, and economic centers,” he added.

    So after using a search engine myself I conclude that the Nazi AI was correct and that Tehrantimes misquoted the Iranian army general which made a vague bombastic quote instead of using concrete numbers.

    The current article says 2 and is a direct claim by the Iranian military. It might still be fake but at least it not a “possibly 2”.