{"id":40555,"date":"2026-04-04T03:41:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40555"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:41:35","slug":"trump-says-f-15e-shot-down-over-iran-wont-affect-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40555","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says F-15E Shot Down Over Iran Won&#8217;t Affect Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Donald Trump reportedly stated the shooting down of a United States F-15E over Iran on Friday morning would not affect ongoing negotiations, pointing out, \u201cIt\u2019s war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Haake, a Senior White House Correspondent for NBC News, shared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garretthaake\/status\/2040155242415694049\">post<\/a> on X that Trump \u201cdeclined to discuss any details of the ongoing, intensive search\u201d for the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just spoke briefly with President Trump,\u201d Haake wrote. \u201cHe declined to discuss any details of the ongoing, intensive search for the missing pilot in Iran. I asked if today\u2019s events would affect negotiations with Iran: \u2018No, not at all. No, it\u2019s war. We\u2019re in war, Garrett.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040155242415694049\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GarrettHaake\/status\/2040155242415694049\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News\u2019s Oliver JJ Lane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2026\/04\/03\/f-15e-shot-down-over-iran-search-and-rescue-underway-reports\/\">reported<\/a> that American officials told CBS News that \u201cone crew member\u201d had been found, and \u201cthe search and rescue mission to recover the second crew member is ongoing\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One crew member from that downed F-15 has been recovered by U.S. forces, broadcaster CBS News claimed it was told by \u201cU.S. Officials\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The search and rescue mission to recover the second crew member is ongoing. The BBC says White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told them, \u201cThe President had been briefed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other than that it\u2019s still very unclear what happened and how: Leavitt\u2019s reported remark is the first time a named U.S. official has acknowledged anything has happened at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThree Iranian officials\u201d reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/04\/03\/world\/iran-war-trump-oil\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em> that Iranian officials are \u201calso searching for the missing American,\u201d and that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) \u201cclosed off an area in southwestern Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, where they believe the flyer went down.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/03\/report-trump-says-f-15e-shot-down-over-iran-will-not-affect-negotiations-it-s-war\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump reportedly stated the shooting down of a United States F-15E over Iran on Friday morning would not affect ongoing negotiations, pointing out, \u201cIt\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}