The Iranian Foreign Ministry said this week that the alleged US rescue mission in Iran could have been an attempt to steal enriched uranium
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The report comes after Iranian officials said the US operation, framed as a rescue mission days ago, may have been an attempt to steal enriched uranium.
“The failed raid was carried out after the enemy conducted extensive aerial reconnaissance operations in the days leading up to the attack. The US and possibly the Zionist regime lost a significant number of aircraft, including at least one A-10 Thunderbolt II and two Black Hawk helicopters,” the report said.
“Zero Hour for the failed Isfahan operation was set during a secret meeting at the White House under the direct supervision of the US president himself,” the Iranian news outlet added. “This operation had no connection to the claimed rescue of a downed F-15 fighter pilot … The real objective was to infiltrate and attack one of Iran's nuclear facilities in Isfahan.”
“The landing site for C-130 transport aircraft, chosen based on previous reconnaissance, was an abandoned airstrip located dangerously close to one of these nuclear sites,” Press TV added.
Press TV went on to say that Iranian forces were waiting for US troops.
Iranian troops “initially did not show a serious reaction to the landing of the first C-130, which was carrying dozens of special forces commandos.” Once the second aircraft approached, Iran targeted it and forced it to make an emergency landing.
“The White House situation room made a critical decision: the main operation to infiltrate the nuclear site was changed into a desperate rescue operation for the dozens of US commandos trapped under Iranian fire,” the report explained. US jets managed to extract the trapped soldiers after heavy bombing, creating a 5-kilometer “line of fire" and destroying equipment to prevent Iranian forces from taking it.
The Press TV report comes a day after Iran’s Foreign Ministry made a statement saying that the operation to rescue a downed pilot may have been part of a deception to steal enriched uranium.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, said Monday that there were “many questions and uncertainties” about the operation.
“The possibility that this was a deception operation to steal enriched uranium should not be ignored at all,” said Baghaei.
He stated that the area where the airman was said to be found, in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, is a long way from the area where US forces attempted to land in central Iran.
Social media users and observers noted other discrepancies in Washington’s official story, including the fact that the airman had to climb a mountain to transmit his emergency signal.
An article published by Substack user SIMPLICUS also noted the use of two C-130 aircraft – each meant to carry around 100 personnel – to extract one pilot.
The article also cited recent comments by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi, who said Iran’s enriched uranium was stored in a tunnel complex in Isfahan.
Over 2,000 Iranians have been killed by the US and Israel since the start of the war in late February.
The attacks have also impacted more than 90,000 homes and nearly 1,000 schools. Hundreds of medical facilities have been damaged or destroyed.
US-Israeli strikes hit a Jewish synagogue in Tehran on Tuesday morning.
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