{"id":815458,"date":"2026-08-16T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815458\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:22:09","slug":"iran-demands-probe-into-downed-pilots-in-qatar-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815458\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran demands probe into downed pilots in Qatar &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-16T08:54:17+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Tehran<\/p>\n<p>Iran on Sunday urged Qatar to allow an Iranian delegation<br \/>\ninvestigate the fate of three pilots whose aircraft were shot down during the<br \/>\nFebruary 28 war with the United States, rejecting Doha\u2019s denial that the men<br \/>\nwere detained.<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Seyed Mohammad Bagherzadeh, head of<br \/>\nIran\u2019s Armed Forces Missing Persons Search Committee, accused Qatari officials<br \/>\nof repeatedly delaying the investigation and preventing the pilots\u2019 return to<br \/>\nIran. He also called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to<br \/>\nintervene and establish the personnel\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has previously identified the three pilots as Javad<br \/>\nSalehi, Abdolmajid Dashtian and Omran Behraveshian. Bagherzadeh has claimed<br \/>\nthey survived after two Iranian Su-24 aircraft were shot down on March 2 and<br \/>\nwere subsequently captured by Qatari forces. The fourth pilot, Majid Kazemi,<br \/>\nwas killed in the incident, with his remains later transferred to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar has categorically rejected Tehran\u2019s account. Foreign<br \/>\nMinistry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/World\/Qatar-rebuts-allegations-of-capturing-Iranian-pilots%20(rejected)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">maintained<\/a> that Qatari forces acted after<br \/>\nthe Iranian aircraft violated the country\u2019s airspace, taking necessary measures<br \/>\nto defend Qatar\u2019s sovereignty in accordance with international law.<\/p>\n<p>Further details have since emerged about the confrontation.<br \/>\nCNN, citing sources familiar with the incident, reported that Qatari fighter<br \/>\njets engaged the two Iranian Su-24s after they entered Qatari airspace. The<br \/>\naircraft were returning from a mission involving a US military base in Doha.<br \/>\nAccording to the sources, Qatar issued radio warnings but received no response.<br \/>\nThe aircraft were then classified as hostile and shot down by Qatari fighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-16T08:54:17+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tehran Iran on Sunday urged Qatar to allow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[346130,4,450,451,801,346129,3,15275,452,453],"class_list":["post-815458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-aircrafts","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-demands-probe-into-downed-pilots-in-qatar","tag-news","tag-qatar","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}