Sauvetage de l'aviateur: une possible opération américaine pour voler de l'uranium selon Téhéran
Iran said on Monday that the US rescue operation of an airman could have been used as cover to "steal enriched uranium", arguing that there were "many unanswered questions".
US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the second pilot of the plane that crashed two days earlier in Iran, which Tehran says it shot down, had been rescued in a "daring" military operation.
On the Iranian side, the army says it "thwarted" the plan, without clearly denying the rescue of the airman.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghai said on Monday that there were "many questions and grey areas" regarding the operation.
"The area where the presence of the American pilot was reported, in the province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad (southwest), is very far from the area where they tried to land or wanted to land their forces in central Iran," he said during a weekly press briefing.
"The possibility of a deception operation aimed at stealing enriched uranium must absolutely not be ruled out," he added.
In central Iran, there is notably a uranium processing plant in the province of Yazd.
Mr. Baghai described the rescue operation as a "disaster" for Washington, with the Iranian military claiming its forces had destroyed two Black Hawk helicopters and two C-130 military transport planes.
According to her, the aircraft came under fire, forcing them "to make an emergency landing in the province of Isfahan (central).
The US military then had to "massively bomb the downed aircraft," it said in a statement relayed by state television.
According to US media, two of the planes meant to bring the pilot and his rescuers to safety were stuck at an isolated base in Iran and had to be destroyed to keep them out of the hands of Iranian forces.
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