1). “Alastair Crooke: Iran Will Emerge Stronger After the War & Reshape the Global Economy”, Apr 7, 2026, Glenn Diesen interviews Alastair Crooke, Glenn Diesen's Substack, duration of video 1:02:41, at < https://glenndiesen.substack.
2). “Larry Johnson: Iran Destroys U.S. Aircraft - Trump Will Expand the War”, Apr 6, 2026, Glenn Diesen interviews Larry Johnson, Glenn Diesen, duration of video 53:45, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
3). “John Helmer: Iran Just Did the Unthinkable – US & Israel Respond (Middle East on Fire)”, Apr 7, 2026, Nima Alkhorshid interviews John Helmer, Dialogue Works, duration of video 58:46, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
4). “5 US Aircraft Down: What Really Happened in Iran This Wknd /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Jim Webb”, Apr 6, 2026, Lt Col Daniel Davis interviews Marine Jim Webb, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive, duration of video 55:27, at < https://www.youtube.com/live/
5). “How rescue of US airman in remote part of Iran unfolded”, Apr 6, 2026, Gabriela Pomeroy, BBC, at < https://www.bbc.com/news/
6). “A Showman Unable to do his Job”, Apr 7, 2026, Heather Cox Richardson delivers a lecture on current U.S. Politics and ongoing events, Today in Politics / Explainer, duration of video 35:15, at < https://www.youtube.com/live/
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Introduction by desmond: The Military Forces of the U.S. have been committed to the Israeli directed (and for decades desired) agenda to destroy Iran. Item 1)., “Alastair Crooke: ….”; Item 2)., “Larry Johnson: Iran Destroys ….”; Item 3)., “John Helmer: Iran ….”; and Item 4)., “5 US Aircraft Down: ….”, all acknowledge, in various parts of their posts, the level of Israeli and American Zionist control over U.S. foreign, economic, and military policy in the regions of West Asia and North Africa. It is difficult to understand just how the advisors and confidants of Donald Trump were surprised by the fact that, as a consequence of the attack, Iran took power over the Strait of Hormuz; with all the equally predictable economic and geostrategic ramifications of that change, from a freely transited international passage, to a toll booth passage controlled by Iran. Trump probably could not find the Strait of Hormuz on a world map or globe, but clearly the people who whisper in his ear should have known about this. We can be sure that the various U.S. intelligence agencies and the high command of the military were aware of this situation.
The Brouhaha around the F-15 shot down by the Iranians, and the recovery of the Weapon's Officer from the plane hides a much larger-scale U.S. commando operation, that Trump hoped would emulate the “Snatch and Grab Operation” that U.S. forces carried out in Venezuela. Once again as part of their commentary Items 1). - 4). all discuss the fact that several aircraft were destroyed during a larger event. To start with the supposed F-15 Weapon's Officer would generally be a Lieutenant while a Colonel is far higher rank in the hierarchy with larger scale responsibilities. According to Item 1). a total of 13 U.S. aircraft were lost in the supposed rescue of the , including large and mini helicopters, 3 or 4 Hercules C-130 Transport planes, and one A-10 Warthog ground support plane. The Weapon's Officer was rescued but most of the aerial activity was apparently an attempt to capture some Iranian enriched Uranium and bring it back to the U.S. as a war prize. An operation that went terribly wrong and that might have caused the deaths of way more than 2 or 3 American military personnel.
The official story, as reported by the BBC in Item 5)., “How rescue of US airman ….” is stated more-or-less here below
“As US special forces aboard several aircraft made their way towards the stranded officer, strikes were reportedly launched to keep Iranian troops away from the area.
“The New York Times reported that the airman communicated information on Iranian positions from his hiding place high on a 7,000ft ridge to aid with those strikes.
“CBS News, the BBC's US news partner, reported that Navy Seals - highly trained special operations troops - were then airdropped in to recover the airman.
“The rescue mission involved 155 aircraft, including four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refuelling tankers, 13 rescue aircraft and more, Trump said. (Emphasis added)
“ 'We were bringing them all over, and a lot of it was subterfuge,' he said. 'We wanted to have them think he was in a different location, because they had a vast military force out there - thousands of people were looking.' "
It is true that the U.S. military does try very hard to recover pilots and crew from American aircraft that have been shot down or crashed for whatever reason; but this situation really strains credulity. Another “official story” that turns out to be a complete myth.
In reality Trump's bombastic deadlines were a chimera. The real power, at least over the Strait of Hormuz, lies with Iran. The U.S. military has done tremendous damage to Iran, but the Iranian missile and drone operations have done significant damage to U.S. military power. In the end the Reality TV Host, already in the throes of dementia and a loss of impulse control, is constantly manipulated by forces that manipulate his already horrific impulses to their agendas. The Iranians are certainly not perfect, but they live in the area and have far greater staying power than Trump and the U.S. Zionists have. The Israelis also live there, but the unlimited support for the Israelis and Ultra-Zionists will surely become much weaker or end altogether in coming years. A good analysis of Trump and his allies political dynamics and operations in the U.S. is found in Item 6)., “A Showman Unable ….”.
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1). “Alastair Crooke: Iran Will Emerge Stronger After the War & Reshape the Global Economy”, Apr 7, 2026, Glenn Diesen interviews Alastair Crooke, Glenn Diesen's Substack, duration of video 1:02:41, at < https://glenndiesen.substack.
Alastair Crooke: Iran Will Emerge Stronger After the War & Reshape the Global Economy
2). “Larry Johnson: Iran Destroys U.S. Aircraft - Trump Will Expand the War”, Apr 6, 2026, Glenn Diesen interviews Larry Johnson, Glenn Diesen, duration of video 53:45, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
3). “John Helmer: Iran Just Did the Unthinkable – US & Israel Respond (Middle East on Fire)”, Apr 7, 2026, Nima Alkhorshid interviews John Helmer, Dialogue Works, duration of video 58:46, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
4). “5 US Aircraft Down: What Really Happened in Iran This Wknd /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Jim Webb”, Apr 6, 2026, Lt Col Daniel Davis interviews Marine Jim Webb, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive, duration of video 55:27, at < https://www.youtube.com/live/
5). “How rescue of US airman in remote part of Iran unfolded”, Apr 6, 2026, Gabriela Pomeroy, BBC, at < https://www.bbc.com/news/
How rescue of US airman in remote part of Iran unfolded
Reuters
US special forces launched a high-stakes raid into Iran on Sunday to rescue an injured airman left stranded in a remote mountainous region after his aircraft was shot down two days earlier.
Details have emerged about how the US raced against the clock and advancing Iranian operatives to find the officer deep inside hostile territory.
The airman's ordeal began on Friday when an F-15E Strike Eagle jet was shot down over south-western Iran - the first incident of its kind in more than 20 years.
The two US military personnel on board ejected and, while the pilot was rescued the same day, the second crew member - a weapons operator - became separated and remained stranded in a sparsely populated, rugged region.
Official confirmation soon followed swirling reports that a US airman was missing inside a war zone.
While US aircraft were seen flying low over the area on Saturday, Iran offered a bounty of £50,000 ($66,100) to anyone who found him alive, and videos shared on social media, which have not been verified by the BBC, appeared to show armed civilians searching.
The airman was armed with a handgun, US officials said, and would have received training for this situation, which involves intermittently turning on a beacon signal to help locate him, getting to high ground, establishing communications and concealing himself.
The crew member hid in a mountain crevice and restricted the use of his beacon signal out of concern it could be picked up by Iran, Trump administration officials confirmed at a news conference on Monday.
A senior Trump administration official said the CIA was able to trace the airman's exact location and informed the Pentagon, which would have also had to rule out the possibility the beacon signal was an Iranian trap.
US President Donald Trump later said the airman's location was monitored "24 hours a day" as he was "being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour".
At Monday's news conference, the president said the US soldier was severely injured, treated his own wounds, and - while bleeding profusely - scaled cliffs to transmit his location.
The CIA also reportedly ran a deception campaign inside Iran, falsely spreading word that US forces had already found him.
As US special forces aboard several aircraft made their way towards the stranded officer, strikes were reportedly launched to keep Iranian troops away from the area.
The New York Times reported that the airman communicated information on Iranian positions from his hiding place high on a 7,000ft ridge to aid with those strikes.
CBS News, the BBC's US news partner, reported that Navy Seals - highly trained special operations troops - were then airdropped in to recover the airman.
The rescue mission involved 155 aircraft, including four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refuelling tankers, 13 rescue aircraft and more, Trump said.
"We were bringing them all over, and a lot of it was subterfuge," he said. "We wanted to have them think he was in a different location, because they had a vast military force out there - thousands of people were looking."
But their departure was not straightforward.
Two planes tasked with retrieving rescue crews became bogged down in soil and were unable to take off from the remote base in Iran they had used to land, CBS reported.
US officials said the planes were destroyed to keep them out of enemy hands, standard practice for the military.
Footage and photos assessed by BBC Verify appeared to show a smouldering aircraft wreckage in a mountainous area of central Iran, about 50km (30 miles) south-east of the city of Isfahan.
Iran's military said two US C-130 military transport planes and two Black Hawk helicopters were destroyed during the operation - and that "a deception and escape mission at an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan… was completely foiled", but US officials have denied they came under attack.
Iranian state media also said on Sunday that troops from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had shot down a US drone over Isfahan while it was searching for the missing airman.
BBC News has not been able to confirm either version of events.
US special forces left Iran on three extra aircraft sent to collect the crews, with one official telling CBS a rudimentary airfield in Iran was utilised for the operation.
The rescued airman landed in Kuwait for medical treatment. Trump said he was "seriously wounded" but "will be just fine".
Further details about the airman's identity have not been disclosed.
Just before 00:00 EDT (04:00 GMT) on Sunday, US media broke the news that the second pilot had been rescued.
An Israeli intelligence official told the Jerusalem Post that the IDF had assisted with the operation, including by launching strikes "designed to act as a diversion, drawing Iranian security forces away from the crash site and toward other areas".
Iranian officials and state-run media have painted the operation as a failure, with Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesman for Iran's main military command, saying several US military aircraft had been forced to make emergency landings.
He said: "The ignorant president, trapped in the swamp of the war and aggression that he himself started... fully realised that any aggression, ground operation, or infiltration... would face decisive and disgraceful defeat."
Some US analysts have described the loss of an F-15E deep inside Iranian territory, followed by the destruction of several rescue aircraft, as showing the limitations of US air superiority.
Gen Frank McKenzie, a former commander of US Central Command, said "we did in fact lose a couple of aircraft in that mission", but added that he would take that loss "any day" in a situation like this.
"It takes a year to build an aircraft - it takes 200 years to build a military tradition where you don't leave anybody behind," he told CBS.
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6). “A Showman Unable to do his Job”, Apr 7, 2026, Heather Cox Richardson delivers a lecture on current U.S. Politics and ongoing events, Today in Politics / Explainer, duration of video 35:15, at < https://www.youtube.com/live/
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