Iranian media revealed that tribal groups in the country fired at US military helicopters conducting a search for a crew member who went missing after a fighter jet was shot down in southern Iran.
Fars News Agency, Iran's semi-official media outlet, reported that in the remote mountainous areas of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province and the Bakhtiari region, tribal groups opened fire on two US Black Hawk helicopters that were on a mission to locate a pilot still missing after a fighter jet, believed to be an F-15, was shot down last Friday.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) praised these tribal groups, describing them as “brave, determined, and victorious border guardians,” according to Fars.
Additionally, Fars released a video last Friday purporting to show Bakhtiari nomadic tribes armed with rifles searching for the American crew member in the mountainous area of Khuzestan Province, Iran.
Earlier, Iranian authorities offered a substantial reward for anyone who could successfully capture the missing crew member. The IRGC also boasted about a new air defense system, claiming it was used to shoot down the fighter jet and to attack the two Black Hawk helicopters.
In a video released by Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the IRGC, the spokesperson for Iran’s Central Command, Qatam al-Anbiya, warned that further attacks using this new air defense system would follow.
“We will exert full control over our country’s airspace and demonstrate to the world the enemy’s disgrace more than ever before,” he said in closing.
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