🌲 - 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Broader operational activity included US fighter jet strikes targeting Iranian positions believed to be involved in searching for the downed crew, as well as multiple helicopters (including HH-60 Pave Hawks) conducting extraction operations under fire, with reports of engagements involving local armed elements and Iranian paramilitary forces. Iranian sources claimed several US assets were shot down, but these claims remain unverified and likely exaggerated, while confirmed US actions point to controlled destruction of compromised equipment rather than widespread losses to enemy fire.

🌲 - 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Some circulating claims suggest that local Iranian civilians may have indirectly assisted US efforts in locating or protecting the surviving crew member, though these reports remain speculative and not independently verified. The geographic spread of reported locations indicates significant movement of the surviving airman prior to extraction, highlighting the complexity and depth of the operation.

🌲 - 🇺🇸🇮🇷 According to combined American and Iranian media accounts, the downed US pilot initially survived by hiding on elevated, mountainous and forested terrain, moving away from the parachute landing zone before activating a locator beacon, which helped delay detection by Iranian forces and pro-regime elements.

🌲 - 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The rescue operation escalated in the early hours as US special operations forces were inserted deep inside Iranian territory, approximately 250 km from the nearest friendly border (Kuwait), with reports indicating that two C-130 transport aircraft landed at an improvised airstrip functioning as a forward arming and refueling point (FARP) to support the mission.

🌲 - 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Parallel to the ground operation, reports claim the US conducted a deception and information campaign, spreading narratives that the pilot had already been rescued to create confusion among Iranian forces, while airstrikes targeted approaching hostile elements, including Basij units, with claims of multiple Iranian casualties; additional strikes reportedly targeted communications and broadcast infrastructure in nearby areas such as Dehdasht.

🌲 - 🇺🇸🇮🇷 After US forces located the pilot and began extraction procedures, both C-130 aircraft reportedly became immobilized on the ground, forcing the US to deploy additional aircraft to evacuate personnel. Due to the risk of capture, the stranded aircraft were destroyed by US forces from the air, consistent with standard denial protocols, although Iranian sources claim responsibility for hitting them.

🌲 - 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The extraction was ultimately completed, with US forces and the rescued personnel successfully exfiltrating back to a base in Kuwait, concluding a high-risk deep-penetration combat search-and-rescue operation involving air, ground, and electronic warfare elements under contested conditions.

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🌲 - 🇱🇧🇮🇱 The latest Israeli raid targeted the Al-Janah area.

🌲 - 🇺🇸🇮🇷 IRIB footage shows Iranian media at the wreckage site, of what are claimed to be " downed " US military transport aircraft.

🌲 - 🇮🇱🇱🇧 Another scene from the site of the airstrike behind Rafik Hariri Government Hospital in Beirut.