Missing US crew member rescued in 'daring' operation in Iran

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A missing U.S. service member who was shot down in Iran has been rescued following a risky mission deep behind enemy lines in mountainous terrain, Donald Trump has announced.

“WE GOT HIM!” the president posted on Truth Social shortly after midnight on Saturday. “My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History.”

Iranian authorities had offered a bounty to anyone who handed over the missing airman alive, a state television anchor announced previously. White House officials had remained largely silent on the search.

Trump said that the unnamed airman had sustained injuries during the crash but “will be just fine.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-pilot-rescue-b2952011.html

Go to America and talk about your anti US regime feelings and lots of people will agree with you, and nothing will happen to you.
Well two innocent civilians protesting against ICE were shot dead so there is that.

Anyway your post demonstrates the point, noone said the Iranian regime was anything but abhorrent so why bring it up when US government criticised?

Nonsense

Well apologies if I'm wrongly interpreting what you mean when you constantly remind posters of how evil the Iranian regime is when they are not supportive of the current illegal war.

A genuine apology would be accepted. Yes I’ll ‘constantly remind’ people of what they’re doing as it’s horrendous and for some reason the airtime given to it is very low. Not much on the executions and methods the Guard use to suppress.

Reading about it and caring that it’s happening to them doesn’t mean you have to want a war. There’s no connection.

Hmmm, it's still fooling some people over several threads.

Which posters you may as well be upfront with the accusation

Very comprehensive contribution.

Which bit is 'nonense'?

And? What is this war doing about any of that? The US and Israel starting this war has destabalised the world's economy for what?

"If it was the UK Starmer would still be scratching his head wondering if there was a helicopter available"

It utter nonsense to suggest that the UK forces wouldn't be going in to rescue. They do it.and do it well.

I'm very grateful and relieved the US airman was rescued because no one would want to have seen what could of happened to him or how he could have been used for propaganda in the regimes hands.

A good outcome of this would be trump to take this rescue as "a win" with the promise of a Hollywood movie to massage his ego which would hopefully be enough to encourage the trump administration to deescalate and come to some sort of negotiation to open the trait of Hormuz and return to world to pre 5 weeks ago status. No this doesn't sort out the Iranian regime but neither does the current offensive.

I agree its quite 'daring' or a challenge to rescue a man from a country that has put out a huge bounty on his head. A country that is renowned for torture and killing of thousands of its own citizens for merely protesting. I think the regime are evil in the way they treat their own people.

I also think little of Trump, however, I haven't seen thousands in the US slaughtered for protestering against the war. It's a democratic nation and people have many views which they are free to share.

None of us know the answers. Some veer towards US support and perhaps some to the regime (I've definitely seen arguments that the regime had lots of support of it's people and weren't all bad on other threads), others in the middle as many are not knowing what if anything to do, but distressed at the deaths of innocents.

However, since this thread is about a single airman who was shot down, I'm personally happy he has been rescued.

And now the US and Israel are countries renowned for bombing the world's economy, people in Iran still live under a horrendous regime and are now being bombed on top of that but people in the US can protest. How fab.

I think most realise what the IRGC would have done to the man makes it a good thing he was rescued, and it probably wasn’t easy.

But there are others who are not American if people follow what’s happening who don’t get away, Hossein Ghavi today.

Completely ignored what I said.

I think the fact that the locals didn't get to him first shows what they think about this war - at the very least they stayed well away and did not cooperate with the IRGC, and quite possibly helped him. Although as suggested above, it would mean death to them and their families if that ever came out publicly.

But the idea that the locals couldn't have found him is vanishingly unlikely.
I've been to isolated rural areas in central Asia (not Iran TBF) and there are always locals nearby. You may not always notice them going about their business, but they've seen you.

And someone coming down out of the sky will attract a lot more attention than a 4WD along a track.

I believe locals were there as firefight now being reported.

My photo was missing from my pp.

Expanding on what I said above to another poster, we can only guess what ordinary Iranians think about the US/Israeli attacks, but we've had a number of clues that there is significant support for it - the cheers from apartment blocks in Tehran when Ali Khamenei was killed for instance, and now the way this guy, who was an easy target for the local sheep farmers or whatever, managed to evade capture for two days even though he was injured.

IMO he had help from the locals, but at the very least they didn't help the IRGC to find him. Otherwise they'd have got him within hours. Nobody could seriously think they didn't see that plane come down.

The IRGC would no doubt have been tracking the Americans' attempts to get to him, so it's not surprising that they would have been nearby when the rescue attempt took place. They would only be a short distance behind the Americans anyway.

What's signficant, IMO, is that they didn't get to him before his own people did. That tells me that they only had the Americans to lead them to him, and not the local people.

Don't forget crewmembers doing this sort of role will have had tailored Escape and Evasion training, they won't be complete Babes in the Woods desert and they would certainly be aware of things like the risks of being spotted by locals, even/especially in seemingly remote areas...

Also if the ejections happened at night (which it sounds they did) then there's a fair chance any parachute decents will not have been seen...the bigger issue is kit like the parachutes themselves being found since it gives the searchers a start point to work out (I'm not revealing anything hush hush with that, it's commonly mentioned in some of the accounts written by previous escapees).

It says Iranian troops in that screen shot not against the locals.

Because it's completely irrelevant. We might as well be talking about what countries have wolves rather than what countries you can protest in for all the relevance it has to this war yet you are the second person who thinks that they are shedding some kind of insight into lord knows what by imparting this knowledge. That the US is a democracy makes no difference to the damage that they are doing.

This man whose rescue people are hailing as 'daring' and 'brave' was there as part of a team to bring more death and destruction to the Middle East and help collapse the worlds economy. It's pro US propaganda to elevate this man and his rescue above all of the actual victims of this war. It would be 'daring' and 'brave' for the US and Israel to admit that this whole war has been a massive mistake with catastrophic consequences for people around the world.

And what if Iranians massively support the war despite the danger to themselves? Does that make any difference or is the price of petrol in the west (even if that turns out to be only a short term increase) the only thing that you think counts?

What do you mean ‘shedding some kind of insight’ which posts are you having a go at with this?

It isn't.

This is a thread about a rescue that looks to have involved at minimum looking the other way by the locals. That makes the behaviour of the Iranian regime actually very relevant- a good chunk of their people utterly despise them, what with them doing shit like murdering thousands of protesters. If they didn't behave like that, perhaps the locals would be rather less sympathetic towards foreign fighters in a force that have also killed some Iranian civilians.

It's possible to oppose the war whilst still acknowledging this.