The fate of a second airman shot down in a F-15E warplane was unknown. It was the first time during the five-week war that a U.S. warplane had been brought down over Iran.
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Iran shot down a U.S. fighter jet over the country, the first time that has occurred in five weeks of war, but a rescue effort succeeded in recovering one of its two crew members from Iranian soil, U.S. and Israeli officials said. The fate of the other one remained unclear.
Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament and a key government figure overseeing the war, took to social media to mock the Trump administration as U.S. forces searched for a missing American airman from a downed fighter plane. “This brilliant no-strategy war they started has now been downgraded from ‘regime change’ to ‘Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?’”he said in a post on X. “Wow. What incredible progress. Absolute geniuses.”
President Trump has been briefed on the downing of a F-15E fighter jet in Iran, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said.
