Aftermath of a rescue: wreckage of aircraft at site of US mission in Iran

Workers and army personnel at the site where two US C-130 military transport planes and at least two helicopters were destroyed. Photograph: Mohammad Mohsenifar/The Guardian

The small farming community of Parzan near the city of Shahreza in Iran’s Isfahan province had been largely spared from the US-Israeli war now in its second month – until several US aircraft landed on a dirt airstrip near their village.

• The site of the destroyed aircraft in Isfahan province