🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: One crew member from a U.S. F-15E fighter jet downed over Iran was rescued by American forces, according to CBS News, citing two U.S. officials.

➡️ The search and rescue mission is still ongoing.

#BREAKING
⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇸🇦🇦🇪🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Esmaeil Baghaei has confirmed the direct participation of either Saudi Arabia or the UAE in the military campaign against Iran, after a "Wing loong II" UCAV was shot down yesterday in 'Shiraz'.

The spokesman demanded "clarification".

📝 The statement:

Our armed forces shot down a drone over the city of Shiraz. The drone that was shot down is definitive evidence of the participation of some countries in the region and their actual complicity in the crime of aggression against Iran. We need clarification from one of the two countries that use this drone in the region.

@GeoPWatch

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⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The Iranian Military has taken responsibility of shooting down the USAF "A-10C" Attack Jet south of the 'Qeshm' Island into the strait of Hormuz.

@GeoPWatch

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Iran has shot down two American warplanes and hit three others:

🔹 It shot down F-15E fighter jet early this morning. One of the pilots was recovered with injuries, the other is still missing.

🔹 It hit two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters while carrying out a CSAR mission to rescue the F-15E pilots. Both helicopters survived the strikes.

🔹 It shot down an A-10 Warthog attack aircraft in the Strait of Hormuz

🔹 It hit an F-16C over Iraq. The plane was forced to make a forced landing

📝 Amerikanets: I said in the first stage of the conflict that it would make sense for the Iranians to hold much of their AD in reserve. As the conflict drags out, damage to air bases accumulates, forcing the US/Israel to sortie from more distant bases.

Airframes degrade and need more maintenance, carrier groups have to exit the region and rotate out, MALE drones are shot down, and it becomes increasingly difficult to cover Iranian airspace or conduct DEAD operations.

This allows AD to operate in the open for longer. The cost the Iranians have paid is taking a lot of damage in the first phase of the war, but the prospect of maintaining a persistent AD network over the entire country (which is huge) was never a winning one anyway. If this has been their strategy, expect US/Israeli air losses to increase over time.

📝: Keep in mind that the U.S. is expected to make an air and amphibious invasion somewhere in Iran in the coming weeks and the U.S. just lost two warplanes and was close to losing two helicopters and an additional fighter jet. How many will the U.S. lose in an attempt to seize any of the Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf and/or Strait of Hormuz?

@CIG_telegram