US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

US official has told Reuters than a US jet was shot down over Iran with a search and rescue operation underway.

Update

Iran is saying airdrop operations have been carried out, and intense clashes are ensuing between US forces and Iranian ground forces, resulting in casualties among the invading forces.

Iranian television has also announced that they are offering 10 billion tomans ($64,102) for anyone who can find the pilots

So they’re asking people to be part of the search operation to get the American pilots.

Of course, this would be a changing point in this war because it would mean for the first time that if the Iranians are able to get the American pilots, then this is the first time that the Iranians will have American prisoners of war during this conflict.

Link

https://aje.news/2j1442?update=4459014

Two US crew members missing. It seems from the photos it was an F15 that was shot down. Iran offering reward for their capture or death. Could give Iran negotiating leverage.

Iran has allowed a French owned, Malta-flagged ship through the Strait after Macron criticised the US. Regime charging tolls, which the UK saying it will not accept. Unclear if the French owned ship paid the toll.

The Kribi, a Malta-flagged ship owned by French logistics giant CMA CGM, is the first Western vessel to exit the Gulf since the war with Iran began.

Ships from countries like China, Pakistan and the Philippines have safely passed through the strait in recent days......But the regime is believed to be operating a “toll booth” where vessels are charged up to $2m (£1.5m) to cross the strait, through which 20 per cent of the world’s oil normally transits.

If there was ever a case of fafo, this is now it. Trump and hegseth totally out of their depth

I agree, but there's no end of people to point that out (rightly). Yet you're the only one who replied on the Iranian regime's excesses.

No point in me assuming what other people think ......but I'd question a person's logic if they can't see the Iranian regime is abhorrent too.. not the Iranisn people, the regime....which likely wouldn't be in place now if it wasn't for British and American interference.

I meant 'desperate' as in desperate for anything that would bring about the collapse of the fascist clerical regime that has made their lives a misery for the last five decades, preceded by decades of a more secular repressive regime. I'm sure those who had loved ones killed in January and in previous uprisings, or have others in prison or awaiting execution, already felt 'desperate'. I don't think those of us in the cosy and reasonably well-informed West can hope to have much insight into how people react while living under such a regime and subject to constant censorship and internet blackouts. They're naturally likely to be more concerned about their own regime's motives and intentions. Any outside intervention, even from scrotes like Trump and Netanyahu, would have been at least initially welcome to some at least.

You left out something...

A lot of the ones that voted for him must be a little dim as well, one would have to be somewhat mentally challenged to think Donald Trump would be the solution to any problem.....

Sky reporting the aircraft went down in Western Iran, and that might be less difficult because of the proximity to US allies. Also reports that the F15 was based in Lakenheath, an airbase leased by the US in the UK.

Edit: Sky now reporting that one of the crew members has been rescued by the US and is alive.

This view is boring.

Plenty of Americans did not vote for him, so "America" doesn't deserve anything, it's an entire country.

There are plenty of people who do deserve something but let's not wrap 340 million people into this too.

Still very embarrassing for Trump, especially after his noxious speech the other evening.

All American citizens in the Lebanon have been urged to leave immediately while commercial flights are still operable.

Well that’s ominous. Israel going for Beirut.

That's a Mark Stone level of ominous!

Please, he got elected twice. Americans knew exactly what they were supporting the second time round. You don’t have to go far in the US to find people still cheering on his hooliganism.