An affiliate of Iranian state TV claimed a US pilot was ejected from their aircraft over southwestern Iran Friday.
The anchor on the channel in Iran’s Kohkilouyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province read the following announcement: “If you capture the enemy pilot or pilots alive and hand them over to the police, you will receive a precious prize.”
US Central Command, the Pentagon and White House didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army’s top uniformed officer, Gen. Randy George, to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure as the United States wages a war against Iran.
The ouster, reported earlier by CBS News, is just the latest of more than a dozen firings of top generals and admirals by Hegseth since he took office last year.In his address Wednesday night, US President Donald Trump said US forces will keep hitting Iran “very hard” in the next two or three weeks and bring the country “back to the Stone Ages,” even as he touted the success of US operations and argued that all of Washington’s objectives have so far been met or exceeded.
Iran is firing more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states, with a spokesperson for its military insisting Thursday that Tehran maintains hidden stockpiles of arms, munitions and production facilities.The death toll from the war has risen to more than 1,900 people in Iran and over 1,300 people in Lebanon.
Thirteen US military members and 10 Israeli soldiers have been killed.
Nineteen civilians have been killed in Israel, as well as a number of civilians and soldiers on land and sea in the Gulf region.
Millions of people in Iran and Lebanon have been displaced.
