{"id":314809,"date":"2026-04-13T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=314809"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:43:40","slug":"war-on-iran-a-word-from-the-us-president-open-the-fuckin-strait-you-crazy-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/04\/war-on-iran-a-word-from-the-us-president-open-the-fuckin-strait-you-crazy-bastards\/","title":{"rendered":"War on Iran–a Word from the US President: \u2018Open the Fuckin\u2019 Strait, You Crazy Bastards\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Part of a F-15 US military aircraft destroyed by Iran defense forces on 6 Apr 2026.\u00a0 (Morteza Salehi\/Tasnim News Agency\/Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n

The utter collapse of the world economy and the depopulation of vast parts of the Middle East.\u00a0 That is what is at stake and it\u2019s in the hands of a madman.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

6 Apr 2026 –\u00a0<\/em>Despite the ongoing US celebrations, there remain huge questions about exactly what happened in the Iranian desert in the aftermath of the U.S. rescue of one of its downed F-15 pilots yesterday.<\/p>\n

Washington and its allied media are celebrating it as an heroic operation. Typical of this rhetoric, Donald Trump wrote on social media:<\/p>\n

\u201cWE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History. \u2026 The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations, without a SINGLE American killed, or even wounded, just proves once again, that we have achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He wrote it on Truth Social, but is it true?<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Press TV reports:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the C-130s approached their landing zone, Iranian police commando units opened heavy fire from multiple directions, immobilizing the first transport aircraft before it could unload its personnel.<\/p>\n

Minutes later, IRGC air defence systems locked onto the second C-130 and the two Black Hawks. One by one, the American aircraft were struck \u2026 At least five American personnel were killed in the operation, according to Iranian military sources. Some unofficial reports have put the death toll even higher.<\/p>\n

The IRGC\u2019s Public Relations Department issued a terse but devastating statement.\u201cThe invading enemy aircraft in southern Isfahan, including two Black Hawk helicopters and two C-130 military transport aircraft, were hit and are now burning in the flames of the wrath of the heroic fighters of Islam,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n

For the first time since the aggression began on 28 February, Washington had lost not just strike aircraft but the very platforms designed to retrieve downed pilots, a catastrophic failure of combat search-and-rescue doctrine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Iran release footage of the destroyed U.S. aircraft.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/x.com\/PressTV\/status\/2040872700076515548<\/a><\/p>\n