Iran says Qatar captured three pilots, calls for their release
Iran has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to intervene over three air force pilots it says have been held in Qatar since their aircraft were shot down during the war with the United States and Israel in March.
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Bagherzadeh, head of the Missing in Action Search Committee of Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff, made the request in a letter to ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric.
Bagherzadeh said the pilots ejected after two Su-24 fighter-bombers were downed on March 2 while returning from a mission against a U.S. military base in Qatar.
He said Qatari forces captured three of the four crew members alive.
