Iran believes that US’ attempt to save its pilots could have been a cover to steal Iranian uranium, it failed, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday.
“The fact that it could have been a deceptive maneuver in order to steal enriched uranium cannot be ignored. One thing is absolutely clear — the result of this operation was nothing more than a ‘second Tabas,'” Baghaei said, as broadcast by Iranian television channel SNN.
On Friday, US media reported that the United States had launched a large-scale search and rescue operation following the crash of an F-15E Strike Eagle supersonic fighter-bomber over Iran.
One of the two pilots was soon found. US President Donald Trump later announced that the second pilot of the American F-15E jet shot down in Iran had been rescued and was safe. According to the president, dozens of US aircraft participated in the rescue operation.
