US narrative of pilot rescue ‘just fictional’: IRGC spokesman
An Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) official has ridiculed Washington’s efforts to portray the alleged rescue of an American pilot in Iran as a success, saying the story recently published in the US media about the incident is “just fictional.”
Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi, the IRGC spokesman, said in remarks published on Wednesday that no one can believe the narrative put forward by the American media about the rescue of the pilot in April during the joint US-Israeli aggression.
General Mohebbi said the story, published earlier this week as part of a report in CBS News’s 60 Minutes program, was akin to the scripts of Hollywood movies and a clear attempt to manufacture an achievement from the failed aggression on Iran.
“No sound mind would accept their narrative because it is fictional and unacceptable,” he said in an interview with the official IRNA news agency.
The Iranian general said the pilot, who was allegedly rescued from rugged mountains in central Iran, had told a completely unbelievable story to the CBS News about how he survived the crash after his F-15 jet was shot down by the Iranian military forces.
“The American pilot claimed that he fell at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour and survived, while his parachute did not even open and he crashed into the heart of a mountain.”
Mohebbi said the United States has a history of making up such fictional stories about its success in foreign wars.
He said the US government is fabricating achievements from its failed aggression on Iran because it is under intense pressure both from its allies and domestic rivals and political factions about what it has really achieved from the costly military endeavor.
“The US is embarrassing itself with these actions. These films (pilot interview) will definitely not only fail to bring any achievement… but will also become a source of ridicule,” said the IRGC spokesman.
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