Iran's Mehr news agency published footage of an Iranian Air Force fighter jet flying over Tehran, as the country's military remains on high alert. The imagery emerges amid a wave of US-led and Israeli strikes on Iranian energy and military infrastructure, and hours after reports of an air strike on a petrochemical plant in Asaluyeh.
At 22:08 local time, Iran's Mehr news agency released footage of an Iranian Air Force fighter jet flying over Tehran, a display of force as the military remains on high alert after successive waves of strikes on its energy and military infrastructure. The imagery follows a thread The Zioneer has been tracking: at 21:54 we reported Iran scrambled a MiG-29 over Tehran to intercept micro drones — the first confirmed use of a fighter jet in that period. The new Mehr footage does not identify the aircraft type, but the sequence now shows the same broad capability being put on visible display within 14 minutes of that initial scramble report, reinforcing the picture of an air force operating in a defensive posture.
Our thread's antecedents are dated precisely. At 21:57 on June 10, we reported US strikes hit the Bandar Kargan naval base and that the IRGC Navy base at Sirik was still burning from an earlier strike — those frames came from Iran's IRIB confirming at least five strikes. At 22:05, The Zioneer published a bulletin confirming that the petrochemical plant at Asaluyeh was struck for the second time in 48 hours, citing Tasnim; that report was linked to a known pattern of strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure that The Zioneer had previously covered on June 8. The source quality across the thread has remained consistent: Iranian state-affiliated outlets (Mehr, Tasnim, IRIB) are the primary sources for all event claims, and no independent or Western corroboration has yet been published for the jet flyover or the micro-drone interception.
As background, The Zioneer reported on June 8 that the IRGC claimed a retaliatory missile strike on a Haifa petrochemical facility, framing it as a direct response to Israeli operations at the Mahshahr energy complex. That earlier claim provides context for why Iran's military may now be projecting air power over its capital. Additionally, at 22:16 Mehr separately reported an exchange of fire at sea between Iranian forces and the US Navy, but that incident is being tracked as a distinct event in its own bulletin.
What remains unverified: the operational status and mission of the fighter jet in the Mehr footage, whether it was the same MiG-29 involved in the earlier micro-drone interception, and whether any interception actually occurred. The flyover footage is a single-source, state-provided image, and no independent analyst has confirmed the aircraft's real-time role.
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