Iran says several 'enemy aircraft' destroyed during US pilot rescue mission

Several aircraft were destroyed in the south of Iran's ​Isfahan province during a U.S. mission to find a stranded airman, Iranian military officials said on Sunday, Reuters reported. 

U.S. officials told Reuters late on ​Saturday that a second airman ​whose F-15 jet was downed on Friday in ⁠Iran was rescued, a day after ​the first crew member was recovered.

"Additional investigations ​by experts on the ground revealed that two C-130 military transport planes and two Black Hawk ​helicopters of the US army were ​destroyed by our forces," the spokesperson of the ‌unified ⁠command of Iranian armed forces said.