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New York Times reveals new details: SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and Rangers landed in Iran. The unique technology that the CIA used

2026-04-06 22:57:01Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
New York Times reveals new details: SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and Rangers landed
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US forces faced a dramatic race against time to find and rescue a service member stranded in enemy territory in Iran after their F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet was shot down by Iranian fire.

According to a detailed analysis by the New York Times, the pilot was rescued about six hours after the crash, but the weapons systems officer remained missing, becoming the main focus of the US military and the CIA for two days.

Alone, wounded, and armed only with a pistol, the officer was forced to survive by hiding in a rocky crevice on a mountain ridge over 2,100 meters high.

Reconnaissance planes and drones searched the area near the crash site but initially failed to find any signs of life. The military described his status as "unknown."

According to the analysis, about 14 hours after the plane was shot down, US officials finally managed to pick up the officer's location signal through a signaling device he was carrying.

However, its use was discontinued, as pilots are trained not to leave the signal active continuously, so as not to be detected by the enemy.

At that moment, US Central Command refrained from releasing a statement about the plane crash and the pilot's rescue, so as not to jeopardize the operation for the second officer.

The New York Times writes that Iran had set up several search groups and one of them had gathered near the mountain where the American officer was hiding.

For Tehran, capturing him would constitute an important asset at a time of high tensions with Washington. For the US, rescuing him was a moral obligation, in line with the principle of “no one left behind.”

This is where the CIA stepped in. According to the analysis, the agency developed a deception plan to buy time, spreading information in Iran that the operative had been found and was being taken out of the country in a ground convoy.

The goal was to draw Iranian forces away from the area where he was hiding and focus on the exit routes. The operation appears to have created confusion, but the Iranians simultaneously stepped up the search, even calling on citizens on state television to capture the “enemy pilot” in exchange for a reward.

The analysis highlights that, while the rescue operation was being prepared on the ground, President Donald Trump was publicly escalating threats against Iran, warning of the destruction of electrical infrastructure if Tehran did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

At the same time, the US military was preparing a very complex mission, involving about 100 special operations troops, with elements of SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and Army Rangers on standby, as well as a larger support force with helicopters, reconnaissance aircraft, fighter jets and aerial refueling vehicles.

According to officials quoted by the New York Times, the CIA used special technology, unique to the agency, to locate the operative in the rock crevice and confirm his identity.

Then, American and Israeli officials gathered data to figure out whether he was alone, surrounded, or captured. Once it was confirmed that he was alone, the rescue mission was launched after dark.

The operation took place under extremely difficult conditions, due to the mountainous terrain, the danger from Iranian forces, and the unknown health condition of the operative.

The moment the commandos landed on the target, American and Israeli aircraft dropped bombs to illuminate and hit the surrounding areas.

From his hiding place, the operative showed the rescuers the directions in which the Iranian forces could advance. The commandos fired intensively to keep any threat at bay, but there was no direct clash with the enemy.

After being pulled from the mountain, he was taken by helicopter to a makeshift airstrip inside Iran, where he was expected to be immediately loaded onto two C-130 aircraft for transport to Kuwait.

But, according to the analysis, the operation encountered another serious obstacle: the front wheels of at least one of the planes, possibly both, got stuck in the sand of the runway.

After several hours of unsuccessful attempts, three replacement aircraft were called in. Only then were the commandos and the wounded officer able to escape. After the evacuation, American aircraft bombed the two stranded aircraft and four special operations helicopters to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands.

As news of the rescue became public, Trump reacted on social media with the message "We got it!", but, according to a New York Times analysis, the moment of triumph was short-lived.

On Easter Sunday, the American president was immediately brought back to the reality of an unpopular war and without a clear exit strategy: the force had been saved, but the Strait of Hormuz still remained under Iranian control, putting up to 20 percent of the world's oil supply and the global economy at risk.


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