Important
- An American pilot is still being sought in Iran by both sides.
- The United States is trying to save him while Tehran could turn him into a prisoner of war.
- “The outcome of this sequence will be decisive for the rest of the war,” says Sébastien Regnault, an Iran and Middle East specialist on LCI.
The United States and Iran are doing everything to find the American pilot who ejected from his aircraft shortly before it crashed on Iranian soil. “We are really in a race against time between the two parties,” says Sébastien Regnault, an Iran and Middle East specialist.
On one side, Americans are trying to rescue him, on the other, the Iranian government could make him a prisoner of war. On the set of LCI, the specialist even goes so far as to suggest that “the outcome of this sequence will give victory to one of the two camps.”
“In the media narrative, the national narrative of each of the two countries, the outcome of this problem will be decisive for the rest of the war,” he adds.
In propaganda images, many Iranian civilians, waving flags, search the mountains to find this pilot. Tehran promises a “reward” to whoever finds him. A sector of the province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, in the southwest of the country, has been cordoned off by Iranian authorities.
