Iran’s Quds Force Commander Led Russian Pilot Rescue: Syrian Officer

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Alwaght- The pilot of the Russian Su-24 jet shot down by Turkey was rescued in an operation in a joint rescue operation in Syria supervised by a senior Iranian commander.
According to a Sputnik news report on Saturday citing a Syrian officer, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Qassem Soleimani assembled a rescue team made up of 18 Syrian Special Forces members and six Hezbollah fighters for the operation.
The unnamed Syrian officer said the team was tasked with rescuing the pilot while air and intelligence support was being provided by Russian forces.
Emad Abshenas, a reporter for Russia’s state-run Sputnik news agency, wrote a piece in the Persian-language website of the Russian agency outlining the rescue story as told by a senior Syrian officer.
Abshenas said: "I contacted one of the Syrian officers who is my old friend and is stationed in Lattakia and asked him to tell me the story, and here is what he said."
"Every move of the special units was monitored and covered precisely by the Russian satellites in a way that the slightest moves made 100 meters away from the area of operation was reported to them and every moment of the operation was reported to a very high-raking official in the Kremlin (that he thinks was President Vladimir Putin) and it was clear that he was monitoring the entire operations through satellites from Moscow.
"The interesting point is that all the 24 members of the special units along with the pilot returned to their base without even one injury after fulfilling the dangerous mission."
"Soleimani promised them to return the Russian pilot safe and sound; a promise that was kept in the end, according to the Syrian officer,” the report said.
Another report published by the Fars News Agency noted that Russian fighter jets carried out airstrikes on the region to push militants away, which permitted the team to gain further access into the terrorist-held territory.
Apart from rescuing the pilot, the team also eliminated all terrorists active in the region, before returning safely with all members to their base of operations.
On Tuesday, Turkish Air Force shot down the Russian jet, accusing it of having violated Turkish airspace, an allegation Moscow has denied. One of the pilots was killed by militants in Syria after ejecting from the jet and the other was rescued.

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