What has Trump said?<\/strong><\/p>\nDuring the operation, Mr Trump was relatively quiet online, with a local reporter checking if he was at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC.<\/p>\n
After the mission was finished though, the US president said on Truth Social: “Over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History”.<\/p>\n
He added that the airman was injured, but “he will be just fine”, before saying: “This is the first time in military memory that two U.S. Pilots have been rescued, separately, deep in Enemy Territory.<\/p>\n
“WE WILL NEVER LEAVE AN AMERICAN WARFIGHTER BEHIND!”<\/p>\n
At an Easter event at the White House, Mr Trump said of the rescue that “normally you’re in very hostile territory, and I don’t think it gets much more hostile than (Iran) are, and they’re capable fighters”.<\/p>\n
“You don’t mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong, not so strong like they were about a month ago, I can tell you”, he added.<\/p>\n
“In fact, right now they’re not too strong at all in my opinion, but we’re soon going to find out, aren’t we?”<\/p>\n
The US president also said that “what we did yesterday is we picked up not one – we picked up two” – referring to the first pilot thought to be rescued. It’s unclear whether he misspoke.<\/p>\n
He added: “We kept the first one quiet, and we were able to keep it quiet for about a day, which made it a lot better. But those two pilots were incredibly brave, and we thank them.”<\/p>\n
What has Iran said?<\/strong><\/p>\nIran’s state TV showed on Sunday a picture of black smoke from what it said was a destroyed American transport plane and two helicopters.<\/p>\n
Iranian state media on Friday also said a second US plane – an A-10 aircraft – crashed after being hit by Iranian forces.<\/p>\n
The US military has not commented on the status of that aircraft or its crew.<\/p>\n
And on the US’s rescue efforts on Sunday, Iran said several aircraft were destroyed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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