This handout photo provided by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website Sepah News, reportedly shows the wreckage and remains of targeted and crashed aircraft in central Iran. AFP
On Sunday, President Donald Trump said the US recovered a second crew member of an F-15E that went down over Iran on Friday in what he called a "daring" search and rescue operation.
Iran's military has called it "a deception and escape mission", insisting it was "completely foiled".
On Monday, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said there were "many questions and uncertainties" about the operation.
"The area where the American pilot was claimed to be present in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province is a long way from the area where they attempted to land or wanted to land their forces in central Iran," Baqaei said.
"The possibility that this was a deception operation to steal enriched uranium should not be ignored at all."
He added that the operation was "a disaster" for the United States.
Iran's military said several US aircraft had to "make emergency landings" in southern Isfahan province after being hit during the mission, with the US "forced to heavily bombard the downed aircraft" as a result.
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