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As an Iranian watching this rescue mission unfold, I was praying the American pilot would make it out alive, not just for him, but so the Islamic Republic could not use him as a bargaining chip or claim some twisted “victory.” At the same time, I felt a deep envy. Your government sent elite special forces, million-dollar aircraft, and moved heaven and earth to bring one American home. No hesitation. No excuses. In Iran, the regime uses human shields and recruited child soldiers to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq war. They treat their own people like disposable tools. They are now recruiting child soldiers as we speak. The Islamic Republic has zero regard for human life. That’s the brutal difference. One side risks everything to save their own. The other sacrifices their own to stay in power. This hits hard when you have lived under both realities.

ביקור החסידה.🇺🇸 הB2 לא יכול לנחות על נושאת המטוסים בשל גודלו... אבל, לבקר ולברך את החבר'ה הוא יכול. מטוס חמקן B-2 מבצע יעף מעל נושאת מטוסים אמריקאית במפרץ הפרסי כדי להגביר את מורל החיילים 💪 🇺🇸Stork visit. The B2 can't land on an aircraft carrier due to its size...But, to visit and greet the guys it can. A B-2 stealth bomber will fly over a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf to boost the morale of the troops 💪

@itswpceo I dunno. I think that prison camp we raided in Japan and freed all our people behind enemy lines is probaby greater.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 This is the greatest Rescue operation in history of America. 48-HOUR RESCUE INSIDE IRAN HOUR BY HOUR APRIL 3 - F-15E Strike Eagle (Viper 21) shot down by Russian missile over southwestern Iran. - Mach 2.8 intercept, proximity fuse detonation. - Both crew eject successfully. HOUR 0 - Pilot recovered within minutes by ground team. - WSO lands alone, injured (broken ankle), deep in enemy territory. HOURS 1-4 - WSO starts evasion using night and terrain. - IRGC launches massive manhunt with drones and dogs. HOURS 4-8 - Thousands of Iranian civilians join the search for bounties. - U.S. jams Iranian radars and communications. HOURS 8-12 - WSO climbs 7,000-ft ridge despite injury. - U.S. strikes crater roads to block IRGC reinforcements. HOURS 12-18 - WSO reaches ridge top, hides in rocky crevice. - Makes first brief radio contact with friendly forces. HOURS 18-24 - A-10 Warthog shot down by Chinese MANPADS. - Pilot safely recovered by naval assets. HOURS 24-30 - Two HH-60W rescue helicopters hit by ground fire during attempt. - Crews wounded but return to base. HOURS 30-36 - U.S. escalates with cruise missile strikes on IRGC air defenses. - WSO survives near-miss drone strike, relocates under fire. HOURS 36-42 - Nighttime full extraction launched. - Special operations teams insert and engage IRGC in firefight. HOURS 42-48 - WSO located, stabilized on site, and extracted under heavy fire. APRIL 5 — EARLY HOURS - WSO pulled out alive and conscious. - Both F-15E crew members safe.

@Arrogance_0024 We have the planes to spare, we won't spare our people.

Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.

@Arrogance_0024 Imagine Caring more about military equipment than the pilots. How French of you. If we are counting though, there are videos of a few dozen dead Iranians on that mountain that US forces engaged and defeated.

@Arrogance_0024 You are joking right? or are you truly a complete idiot? You know why pilots are fearless? Because they know if they go down-this is what we will do to get them back. There is no bigger combat multiplier than search and rescue. You are so wrong. I will pray for wisdom for you.

@Arrogance_0024 Yes, because we still have how many more airframes than your military 🤣

Hearing a bunch of dumb regime loyalists also got killed last night because they wanted the $60k bounty and climbed up the mountain only to realise fighting US troops isn't like beating teenage girls. Good riddance really.

@BabakTaghvaee1 Souce trust me bro. Great fear mongering.

BREAKING: According to my Israeli sources, unfortunately, the Bushehr nuclear reactor in Iran has been placed on the target list of the IDF to be struck after the end of Trump's ultimatum. Russia has evacuated all of its workers at Israel’s request. This is going to cause major radioactive pollution in the Persian Gulf region—Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia will be exposed. The lives of not only Iranians but also people in these countries will be affected by this action. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@shanaka86 Probably not information we want out there.

JUST IN: The last time the CIA ran a deception operation to extract Americans from Iran, it invented a fake Hollywood production company called Studio Six Productions, took out ads in Variety, printed business cards, and walked six diplomats through Mehrabad Airport disguised as a Canadian film crew scouting locations for a science fiction movie. That was January 28, 1980. The operation was called Argo. It took months to build the legend. It worked because the cover story was elaborate enough to survive scrutiny at an airport checkpoint during a revolution. Forty-six years later, the CIA built the legend in hours. According to Fox News citing a senior Trump administration official, the Agency launched a deception campaign inside Iran on April 3, leaking false information that the downed F-15E weapons systems officer had already been located and was being moved on the ground for exfiltration out of the country. Israel Hayom, citing a senior CIA official, reported that operatives used “fabricated transmissions” to convince Iranian forces that the pilot had already been extracted and moved to various locations. Some reports describe a maritime variant: a ghost ship, a fake naval exfiltration that drew Iranian coastal forces to a vessel that did not carry the man they were looking for. Iran chased the ghosts. While IRGC ground forces, Basij militia, and Bakhtiari tribesmen pursuing a $60,000 bounty hunted the false leads, the WSO sat in a rock crevice on a 7,000-foot ridgeline in the Zagros Mountains with a pistol, an encrypted beacon, and SERE training, waiting for the people who actually knew where he was. The CIA’s “unique, exquisite capabilities,” the phrase used by the senior official and left deliberately undefined, confirmed his identity, verified the beacon was not a trap, and passed the coordinates to the White House. A senior Trump administration official told Fox: “Within 8 hours we had planes in motion. Within 12 hours we were on the ground in Iran.” The deception did not achieve total diversion. IRGC forces still converged. A firefight erupted. Two transports were destroyed on the ground by the Americans who flew them there. But the fabricated transmissions bought the hours that mattered: the hours between the WSO being a hunted man alone in a crevice and being a located man with hundreds of operators converging on his position. The fake narratives did not need to fool every Iranian commander. They needed to slow enough of them long enough for the real operation to reach the ridgeline. Argo took months and extracted six people from an airport. This operation took hours and extracted one man from a mountain 200 miles inside hostile territory during an active war. The tradecraft evolved from elaborate legend-building to rapid tactical disinformation injected into adversary networks in real time. The principle is identical: create a reality the enemy believes long enough for the people you are saving to reach safety. The man the Iranians were chasing was never where they were looking. The ship they were watching was never carrying him. The convoy they were pursuing did not exist. And by the time they understood what the CIA had done, SEAL Team 6 had already loaded the colonel onto an aircraft and flown him to Kuwait, where the President said he “will be just fine.” The Agency that once used a fake movie to rescue Americans from Iran just used fake radio transmissions to do it again. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@Sofia50020Sofia I guess stay hungry

You pull up to pick your girl up for a date and you find her like this What do you do?

Chuck Norris is the main character in every movie.

@okamisyousa Unless Dems are in control of the military because they have no regard for our people. Just ask Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods about that.

米軍の仲間は絶対見捨てない精神はマジパネェと思う

親愛なるアメリカ🇺🇸の友人たち、例え話をするよ。 私「日本の和牛肉が美味しいと思うんだよ」 友人「アンガス牛が好きだ！世界一だ」 私「アンガス牛は知らない」 友人「俺も和牛肉は知らない」 私「じゃあ一緒にBBQパーティーをしよう🍖新鮮な野菜もあるよ」 日本の文化はこんな感じだよ

@Luciu_satrninus @SuitablePolitic Warriors are more valuable than assetts. The knowledge and experience they have can be shared by everyone.

I agree with all this but a caveat, it is like you said, it's because you can. Having never had you factories blown up in a total war, allows for a different doctrine than most other countries to be borne. No way a country in existential threat would accept 200 million in assets destroyed for one pilot. Doesn't make it any less noble though.

Apparently, this needs to be explained to people. I'm actually shocked that I have to write this. For one, as people have said, America is a country of true warriors and "no man left behind" wasn't sloganeering. The morale this creates is worth the weight of destroyed aircrafts in gold. It is the lifeblood of American might. The ultimate source of its power. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, we do it because we can. And because we want our enemy to know we can. A prisoner of war is supposed to bring value to the country who received the POW. They're supposed to be able to leverage the aggrieved government for all manner of concessions in a negotiated release. That's what happens when you face a normal country in war. When you face America, you don't even get to fantasize about that. We will send the best killers on the planet to lay waste to your entire country until we forcibly extract our man. Do you not understand how psychologically destabilizing that is? These people spend hours trying to prove their abilities in combat to Americans via AI videos. And we just launched an operation so grand that it scarcely makes sense... all to rescue two men. That's why you blow up a couple planes if it means saving 2 pilots.

@SuitablePolitic Our faith in "Never leave a man behind" enables the best of us to take great risk to achieve what others would consider impossible.

The butchers of Tehran have just suffered the greatest military humiliation their blood-soaked regime has ever known. And I fucking love every exquisite second of it. Two United States Air Force airmen, crew of an F-15E Strike Eagle brought down in your own skies amid the firestorm of precision strikes, were hunted like trophies by your so-called elite forces. One extracted under fire within hours. The other...a battle-hardened colonel...evaded your goons for nearly forty-eight hours in terrain you claim as sacred soil. Then America did what America does: we sent our special operators in deep, clashed with your Revolutionary Guard and militia rabble, left their corpses in the dirt, and pulled both pilots out alive. Zero American losses. Not one. Just surgical lethality executed with the kind of professional mastery that makes your entire “Axis of Resistance” look like the paper tiger Prince Turki al-Faisal always said you were. This isn’t mere embarrassment. This is psychological evisceration on a historic scale. Your regime’s entire pathology...decades of revolutionary theater, martyrdom pornography, and “Death to America” chants...has always been a brittle projection of weakness masquerading as strength. You excel at butchering your own women in the streets, hanging gays from cranes, and funding proxy cannon fodder to bleed the world from the shadows. But when real warriors step onto your home turf? When American special forces operate with impunity in the heart of your supposed fortress? Your vaunted defenses crumble, your command nodes go dark, and your fighters bleed out without landing a single meaningful blow. That is the fatal revelation: your theocracy doesn’t fear the Great Satan because of ideology. It fears us because we expose the hollowness at your core...the medieval hubris that history has punished without mercy, from the Persians of old who overreached against disciplined foes to every despot who mistook internal terror for external power. Philosophically, it’s Nietzschean in its cruelty: the slave morality of your mullahs, built on resentment and divine delusion, collapses the instant it confronts the master ethos of free men who fight for something greater than fear. Militarily, it’s pure arithmetic...full-spectrum dominance rendered in blood and night-vision. Our operators don’t chant slogans; they execute doctrine forged in the unforgiving crucibles of real wars, backed by air dominance that turns your mountains into kill boxes. You spent years convincing yourselves that asymmetric harassment and human-wave delusions gave you leverage. Wrong. Dead wrong. We just wrote the obituary on that lie, deep inside your borders, and walked away laughing. To the butchers in Tehran: your regime is cracking from within, its people seething under the boot you’ve ground into their necks for too long. This humiliation doesn’t just sting...it accelerates the implosion. The world sees it. America sees it. And we fucking revel in it. The finest fighting force in human history just reminded every tyrant why no one breaks our own. We do not abandon our people. We do not negotiate with butchers. Greatest humiliation ever, for those degenerates in the bloody regime. And it tastes like victory. 💀🗡️🪖🇺🇸🦅

@GamalSultan1 😊🇺🇸 even China knows