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No one told the Iranians that the F-35 is invisible
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Yes, they more or less are are, to radar. The thumbnail is of an infrared image. If you're close up enough to do this and prepared they can still be shot down.
The trick is just getting that to happen. Consider how many F-35s right above them the Iranians haven't shot down.
Aircraft aren’t uniformly hot like that in a FLIR image either. So, take that how you want.
Not to say there haven’t been hits, the US confirmed it, it just certainly didn’t look like this.