Amid rescue effort, Trump says Iran military leaders 'are terminated'

Amid an intense search-and-rescue effort to locate the second crew member of an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet that crashed in Iran, President Donald Trump said Saturday in a social media post that Iran's military leaders "are terminated".

In the Truth Social post, the president included a video that appeared to show strikes and bombs going off against the background of a darkened sky.

On Friday, the F-15E fighter went down over Iran, prompting a U.S. rescue mission that quickly recovered one crew member. But another from the fighter aircraft remained missing as of late Friday.

Separately, an A-10 "Warthog" plane that was part of the search-and-rescue mission was fired on by Iranian forces. The Warthog pilot ejected over the Persian Gulf but was rescued, according to the New York Times and CBS News.

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