US congressman decried bets on when two crew members on the F-15 jet shot down by Iranian forces would be rescued
After strong criticism from a federal lawmaker, the online betting platform Polymarket stopped accepting wagers on when US warplane crew members who were shot down in Iran might be rescued. It promised to investigate how the market materialized.
The criticism came from Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democratic representative who earned two bronze star medals serving with the United States marine corps in Iraq from 2003 to 2008 and published an X post describing Polymarket’s acceptance of bets on the downed pilots’ fate as “DISGUSTING”.
Prior to Moulton’s post, Iranian military forces on Friday had shot down an F-15E Strike Eagle jet occupied by two US air force members participating in the war on Iran being waged by the US and Israel since late February.
The aircraft’s pilot was rescued within seven hours. Donald Trump announced the other crew member’s rescue just after midnight Sunday through a post on his Truth Social platform.
