Iranians urged to hunt for crew of downed US fighter jet

TEHRAN — Iran authorities urged people living in the rugged southwest of the country to search for the crew of a downed U.S. fighter jet on Friday as state TV broadcast images of what was said to be the mangled remains of the plane. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), responsible for military operations in the Middle East, did not immediately respond to AFP request for comment following what would be the first known loss of a U.S. jet inside Iran since President Donald Trump ordered the war. “Military forces have launched a search operation to find the American fighter pilot who was hit earlier today,” Iran’s Fars news agency reported. A local official television station in southwestern Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province aired footage of what it said was wreckage of the downed plane, showing a pile of twisted metal fragments in the back of a truck. It broadcast a message from provincial police urging the area’s nomadic peoples and villagers to join the military in the hunt for the crew of the aircraft that may have gone down in the province. “Dear and honourable people of Kohgiluyeh an

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