Ryan Grim

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So on Iranian Telegram, let me see if I can get these going.

This is a refueling jet flying at an extremely low altitude.

And then there were also some footage of American Apache helicopters.

This is the refueling jet as well.

Let me see what else we got here.

So, okay, so these are the apparently, you know, my understanding is that these are the kind of rare earth stealth Black Hawk helicopters that have been dispatched to, you know, for this search and rescue operation.

Doing so in broad daylight is extraordinarily dangerous, of course.

There's a lot of, I think, intentional misinformation flying around at this point.

There's some reporting out of the Iranian media that a lot of people have probably seen by now the kind of image of the pilot's chair that is taken in the southern desert in southern Iran with a parachute next to it.

There's now Iranian reporting claiming that that was posted to lure the U.S.

into a search and rescue operation, and there are further reports that the Iranians already have the pilots, though the status of how they're doing is unknown.

But that also might be misinformation.

Like, you can't really believe anything coming out of either the U.S., Israel, or Iran right now, although...

we do know for sure that this jet was shot down.

Like that part is all sides confirming.

Yeah, right.

So this is ahead of a potential ground operation.

This is not even part of the kind of boots on the ground operation that Trump may or may not be planning, but it certainly doesn't bode well for it, especially given that

Hegseth has repeatedly said that the U.S.