LOS ANGELES (OC)..–Downing of an American F-15 Eagle fighter jet through the Pentagon for a loop, knowing that over 12,000 sorties have been flown by the U.S. and Israel since the Feb. 28 start of the war. One pilot rescued and the other missing in action, the Pentagon engages in a feverish search-and-rescue operation, with the airman believed alive and hiding from a concerted Iranian search for the downed pilot. If Iran found the pilot the whole world would know because they would parade him around as a propaganda prize, humiliating Trump as much as possible. Pentagon officials aren’t saying whether or not they’ve been in contact with down airman, only saying they’re engaged in a relentless search-and-rescue campaign. Since the airman went down to enemy fire April 1, Trump has been reluctant to answer the fake news looking to humiliate the White House.
Aviation experts pointed out that a F-15E is not equipped with stealth technology, leaving the plance vulnerable to a surface-to-ground missile. No matter how much the Pentagon has degraded Iran’s air defenses, it doesn’t mean the mullah regime is not getting advance surface-to-air missiles from the Russian Federation. While Putin likes to play both sides, he knows he owes Iran for its Shahed drones supplied to fight Ukraine. Trump has pushed for his Ukraine peace plan that includes ceding territory already occupied by the Kremlin. So far, Ukraine’s 38-year-old president Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected Trump’s peace plan, joing the European Union to resist surrendering territory to Putin. EU officials think, like Zelensky, that ceding territory to Putin to end the war, invites Putin in the future to take more territory from the EU. Putin denies he has any interest.
Trump doesn’t want a repeat of former President Barack Obama’s failed JCPOA or “Iranian Nuke Deal,” essentially paying Iran $16 billion in cash and another $123 billion in sanctions relief to secure the agreement. When Trump cancelled the JCPOA, he realized that there was no verification or enforcement mechanism to stop the mullah regime from refining Uranium hexoflouride gas to over 60%, right belove weapons grade material. Obama’s JCPOA supposedly limited Iran to enriching only nuclear reactor fuel at 3.5%, something that couldn’t be verified or enforced because Iran banned U.S. weapons inspectors from entering its most sensitive underground military enrichment facilities. Yet Democrats and the fake news tout the benefits of the JCPOA, claiming it restricted Iran from enriching uranium beyond 3.5 %, something that the JCPOA couldn’t verify.
Trump posed tonight on his Truth Social platform that the missing airman, shot down two days ago over Iran, was found by Pentagon search-and-rescue teams. Trump said the airman was injured in the ejection from the F-15E fighter jet and harrowing escape to avoid capture by Iran’s nationwide search with a bounty on his head. Trump robbed the Iranians to a propaganda coup should he be captured by the mullah regime. As it was, Trump reminded the mullah government that he plans to make good on his promise to demolish Iran’s energy secutor unless Iran’s Revolutionary Guards open up the Strait of Horumz. Iran said in response to Trump’s 15-point peace plan that it wants the U.S. to pay Iran war reparations and recognize Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump would never do both, instead heading on a collision course to Trump escalating the conflict Monday, April 6.
Before the missing airman was rescued, the liberal press said that the missing soldier undermined Trump’s military campaign by showing that Iran still had military capability. Whether degraded or not, the mullah regime may be getting back up surface-to-air missiles from Russia or China, though there’s no proof. What’s know for sure is that a U.S. fighter jet was shot down by the battered mullah regime, showing that enve a wounded animal in danger of lashing out. Trump needs to push the military to tale greater precautions in future sorties. President Trump has been forced by the European Union’s indifference to go it alone, when EU and Asian countries are far more impacted by Iran’s blockade in the Persian Gulf that the United States. Trump asked the EU and NATO to get some skin in the game because they get far more energy from the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s mullah has pushed themselves to extinction, defying Trump’s demand to open up the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has no legal right to claim sovereignty on international waterways used to ferry some 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas supply. Arab Guff States led by Saud Arabia have watched Iran attack their infrastructure over the last five weeks of war, all because Iran has resorted to terrorist tacting to win its war with the U.S. and Israel. Whether Iran holds on to the Strait of Hormuz is anyone’s guess. But now that Trump rescued the downed airman he has renewed vigor in carrying out his promise to go after Iran’s oil infrastructure. If he gets the lights turned out in Tehran, the people should rise up against to demand a new government. No one in the Middle East can tolerate mullah control over Iran. Trump didn’t know that his mission in Ira would lead to regime change.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’d editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.v
