In an April 6 press conference, President Donald Trump said Iran has no anti-aircraft weaponry, days after the country shot down two U.S. military aircraft. Is that possible?
President Donald Trump pretends to aim a sniper gun while speaking with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, April 6, 2026, in Washington. President Donald Trump praised the rescue of two U.
S. service members and declared victory in the war with Iran, while also threatening to take out the country’s civilian infrastructure if the countries don’t reach a deal by April 7 that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.at the White House that the U.S. has a plan in which"every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again." He added:"We don’t want that to happen." Trump skirted a question about whether such a strike would violate the Geneva Conventions. Bombing civilian infrastructure typically amounts to a war crime under We fact-checked two statements by Trump about Iran’s air-defense capabilities and what he once wrote about Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.Trump said Iran is"at the weakest point they've ever been. They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft weaponry, they have no radar. They have no communication." Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have said this many times, but it appears at odds with the fact thattwo U.S. military aircraft — an F-15E fighter jet and an A-10 attack plane — in separate incidents in Iran between April 2 and 3. Both crew members of the F-15E, which crashed inside Iran, were rescued. The A-10 pilot navigated the damaged plane to Kuwaiti airspace before ejecting and was subsequently rescued.White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told PolitiFact in an email that "Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks are down 90%, their navy is wiped out, two-thirds of their production facilities are damaged or destroyed, and the United States and Israel have overwhelming air dominance over Iran." She did not answer our questions about how Iran was able to shoot down the two U.S. aircrafts if it had no anti-aircraft weaponry.reported."The enemy should know that we will achieve the complete control of the sky of our country with new air defence systems built by the young scientists and proud youth of this country," a spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya joint military command said on Iranian state media.most of Iran’s Russian-made S-300 missile system during its June 2025 attack, and both the U.S. and Israel spent the beginning of the current war bombing the country’s air defenses.to preserve its capabilities, and while some underground bunkers may appear damaged, Iran has been able to dig out launchers and fire them again."Make no mistake, there still are select surface-to-air missile systems that can work. Plus , those shoulder-launched missiles that if you’re flying at a low enough altitude could still pose a threat," Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish think tank,Michael O’Hanlon, director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Institution, told PolitiFact that Tableau’s explanation was plausible."The simplest interpretation is that President Trump was referring to radar-guided surface-to-air missiles, not shoulder-launched, man-portable, infrared-guided, low altitude interceptors," he said.deal with Russia to acquire thousands of shoulder-fired missiles capable of targeting low-flying planes and drones. Russia has also supplied Iran with intelligence on the locations of U.S. warships, aircraft and other military assets, "Iran doesn't need sophisticated missile defenses to hit low flying planes," said Barbara Slavin, a fellow at the Stimson Center, a foreign-policy think tank.While speaking about his first-term actions on Iran, including the military strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Trump brought up bin Laden. "If you read my book, I said you gotta take him out, one year before the World Trade Center came down," Trump said.Bin Laden is mentioned once in Trump’s 2000 book,"The America We Deserve," specifically in a passage criticizing former President Bill Clinton’s approach to national security. Trump wrote that the U.S. isn’t"playing the chess game to end all chess games anymore. We’re playing tournament chess — one master against many rivals. One day we’re assured that Iraq is under control, the UN inspectors have done their work, everything’s fine, not to worry. The next day the bombing begins." The book continues:"One day we’re told that a shadowy figure named Osama bin Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jet fighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan. He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later, it’s on to a new enemy and a new crisis."Trump devoted a chapter in his book to terrorism and warned broadly that America could be attacked, but he did not call for taking out bin Laden. He wrote that the U.S."must prepare for the real possibility that somewhere, sometime, a weapon of mass destruction will be carried into a major American city and detonated." Email interview with Barbara Slavin, fellow at the Stimson Center, a foreign-policy think tank, April 6, 2026 Email interview with Michael O’Hanlon, director of research in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, April 6, 2026The SAVE America Act “would force Americans to register only in person, something only 5% of Americans do today."“There is no history … that shows an air campaign alone will result in positive regime change. In fact, there's not a single example of it in the entirety of American history.”“You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.” Credit card companies would be “in violation of the law” if they don’t cap interest rates at 10% by Jan. 20.Image shows President Donald Trump asked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Truth Social to pardon Tiger Woods following a DUI charge.
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