A CIA misapprehension operation allowed the Pentagon to rescue the second pilot hidden on the ridge of a mountain

Both the United States and Iran have been competing for two days in a frantic search to locate one of the two crew members of the F-15 fighter whose whereabouts were unknown.

Finding him meant having an advantage in the war, since if they found him the Iranians could have used him as a bargaining chip and put pressure on Trump.

A race against time that concluded this morning when Donald Trump announced through a message in Truth Social that the US army had achieved rescue him alive although it was “seriously injured”.

“WE DID IT! “My fellow Americans, in the last few hours, the United States Armed Forces conducted one of the most daring search and rescue operations in the country’s history to rescue one of our incredible crew officers,” Trump says in his message.

For its part, Iran has denied the United States shortly after its president’s announcement and has assured that frustrated the rescue attempt of the second pilot and that, in addition, they hit several aircraft, “including two Black Hawk helicopters and a C-130 military transport plane.”

A mission that, despite having been completed successfully, has not been without danger. Something that the American president has highlighted, ensuring that it was a risky intervention “behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran.”

Precisely because of the complexity of this type of raid “it is rarely attempted, due to the danger it represents to personnel and equipment. It simply does not happen!” Trump said.

Mountain refuge

The pressure on both armies did not stop increasing. On the one hand, Iran offered 100 billion rials (76,000 US dollars), as well as a “special recognition” as a juicy reward for whoever delivered the “criminal American pilot” alive.

At the same time, Trump deployed a large-scale search operation, which allowed he Navy SEAL Team 6 will rescue the man alive pilot.

But, with the hope that the United States Army would locate him, the colonel tried to safeguard his own life and, badly wounded, sought refuge in the mountains of Iran.

This second pilot remained hidden behind enemy lines with little more than a gun to defend himself in case the Iranians found him.

After ejecting from the plane, the officer shelter in a crack of the mountainaand for a time his location was unknown to both the American forces trying to rescue him and the Iranians trying to capture him.

The airman managed to evade Iranian forces for more than 24 hours. He walked for a mountain ridge for 2,134 meters until they found a refuge to await their rescue, according to the version given by a high military command to the New York Times.

The soldier had a beacon and communications system secure to coordinate his rescue, although he limited their use to prevent Iranian forces from detecting his signal.

In the middle of this battle to try to find the colonel, the CIA tried to gain an advantage over the Iranians.

Thus, the US intelligence service launched a deception operation to mislead the Iranian forces.

He made them believe that the aviator had already been evacuated and was leaving the country in a land convoy, as explained by the senior official.

The agency subsequently managed to locate his hideout and transmitted the information to the Pentagon, which organized the rescue mission.

The operation mobilized hundreds of special forces troops and various military personnelas well as dozens of US fighter jets and helicopters, plus cyber, space and other intelligence capabilities.

American attack planes bombed and opened fire on Iranian convoys to keep them away from the hiding area and when the commandos approached, they fired shots to contain the Iranian forces, although there was no direct confrontation, the same source added.

A senior US military official described the operation to New York Times as one of the most complex and demanding in history of the country’s special forces. And this was due to the mountainous terrain, the airman’s injuries and the speed with which Iranian forces were deployed in the area.

In an unexpected turn after the rescue, two transport planes intended to evacuate commandos and airmen They were left disabled in a remote base in Iran.

The commanders chose to send three additional aircraft to extract all the personnel and decided to destroy the two damaged devices to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands.

The F-15E was shot down in an Iranian region where there is notable opposition to the regime, which could have made it easier for the airman to receive help from the local population to find refuge.

Iran denies the US

Iran stated this Sunday that thwarted the United States’ attempt to rescue the pilot of the downed fighter, in an operation in which, according to Tehran, several aircraft were hit, after US President Donald Trump said that the soldier had been rescued alive.

“The enemy’s invading aircraft in southern Isfahan, including two Black Hawk helicopters and a C-130 military transport plane were hit (…) y The attempt to rescue the pilot failed.”said the spokesman for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Colonel Ebrahim Zolfagari, according to the agency. Tasnim.

From the Iranian regime they affirm that the operation was repelled by a joint action by the Revolutionary Guard, the Army, the Basij militia and the security forceswho managed to prevent the rescue after the entry of enemy aircraft into the center of the country.

They have described the episode as a “new humiliating defeat” for the United States.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard accuses Trump of trying to cover up the failure of the operation after stating on social networks that a special mission had been carried out to rescue the pilot.