{"id":2579924,"date":"2026-03-14T18:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-attempts-to-take-credit-for-downing-us-aircraft-killing-airmen-then-fakes-evidence-in-profoundly-slipshod-way\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:29:10","slug":"iran-attempts-to-take-credit-for-downing-us-aircraft-killing-airmen-then-fakes-evidence-in-profoundly-slipshod-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-attempts-to-take-credit-for-downing-us-aircraft-killing-airmen-then-fakes-evidence-in-profoundly-slipshod-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Attempts to Take Credit for Downing US Aircraft, Killing Airmen, Then Fakes Evidence in Profoundly Slipshod Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-attempts-to-take-credit-for-downing-us-aircraft-killing-airmen-then-fakes-evidence-in-profoundly-slipshod-way%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2579924&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the piece discusses the second week of Operation Epic Fury and Iran\u2019s attempts to show it can curb U.S. and Israeli air power, while Allied air superiority remains dominant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It states that the allies hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/takedown-world-judo-federation-suspends-vladimir-putin-as-honorary-president\/\" title=\"Takedown: World Judo Federation Suspends Vladimir Putin as Honorary President\">total air superiority<\/a> over Iranian airspace,with Iran relying on missile and drone attacks and suffering limited own losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A U.S.KC-135 tanker crashed in western Iraq; initial reports said it was not due to antagonistic or pleasant fire,but a subsequent update confirmed all six crew members were deceased.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Iranian state media claimed the aircraft was downed by \u201cresistance forces,\u201d accompanied by misleading imagery that included familiar photographs (such as Bowe Bergdahl and Staff Sgt. Ryan Pitts) and other questionable elements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Observers and journalists on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-coach-quits-after-being-accused-of-making-microaggressive-comments-about-black-cheerleaders-hairstyle\/\" title=\"College Coach Quits After Being Accused Of Making \u2018Microaggressive Comments\u2019 About Black Cheerleader\u2019s Hairstyle\">social media criticized<\/a> the propaganda as sloppy and unconvincing, noting the use of familiar or misused images and pointing out inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article blends reporting with multimedia elements and user interactions, and it ends with promotional content and a call for corrections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>As Operation Epic Fury reaches its second week, Iran is desperate for something &mdash; anything &mdash; to show that they have some kind of capacity to rein in U.S. and Israeli air power.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, they&rsquo;ve been at a complete loss. The allies have total air superiority over Iranian airspace, as they did during the 12-Day War last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The only planes the Americans had lost up until Thursday were three F-15Es that were downed by friendly fire in Kuwait. Tehran, meanwhile, has been reduced to desultory missile strikes combined with low-tech drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Thursday, news came that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-military-plane-lost-amid-operation-epic-fury-us-central-command\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KC-135<\/a> tanker had crashed in western Iraq while on a mission. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-military-aircraft-down-loss-iraq-6d182239315cf9d2a20c669c5ac8418d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>, the military said in a statement that the accident did not involve either hostile or friendly fire, but that it was unclear how many of the crew were injured, or were even on board the plane.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, U.S. Central Command revealed the worst-case scenario had come to pass: &ldquo;All six crew members aboard a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq are now confirmed deceased,&rdquo; a brief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/4434054\/six-confirmed-deceased-in-loss-of-us-kc-135-over-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media release<\/a> read.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The circumstances of the incident are under investigation. However, the loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire,&rdquo; it continued. &ldquo;The identities of the service members are being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A tragedy, to be sure &mdash; but not a tragedy precipitated by Iranian air defenses, almost certainly.<\/p>\n<p>That didn&rsquo;t stop Iranian state media from trying, in the most slipshod way possible, to pretend they did it.<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of Saturday morning Iran time, Press TV &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/thousands-marines-american-warship-head-middle-east-amid-iran-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran&rsquo;s<\/a> state-run international news network &mdash; posted what it <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressTV\/status\/2032659482216411248?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> were &ldquo;images of the six US crew members of the refueling aircraft that was downed by resistance forces in western Iraq on Thursday.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t just that they claimed resistance forces allied with Tehran took the plane down. There were even more problems with this announcement that a glance at the image would have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;ve followed the news any time in the past decade and a half, at least one of those photographs &mdash; and possibly two &mdash; should look familiar. In the upper right is the picture of Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was taken hostage by a Taliban-aligned group. Former President Barack Obama later traded five high-ranking Taliban officials in U.S. custody to get him back.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Iranians are so bad with their fake claims that they included a photo of Bowe Bergdahl on this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/30RHOtNmdS\">https:\/\/t.co\/30RHOtNmdS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/2032664630418366655?\">March 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The more <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >eagle-eyed military news followers<\/a> will recognize the man at the bottom left, meanwhile, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/136794\/staff-sgt-ryan-m-pitts-medal-honor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Staff Sgt. Ryan Pitts<\/a>, who received the Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart, among many decorations, for his bravery in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Absurdly wrong on a sensitive matter.<\/p>\n<p>Top left: Bowe Bergdahl, court-martialed for deserting his post in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom right: Ryan Pitts, Medal of Honor recipient.<\/p>\n<p>Have to stay vigilant for accounts like this one, which has more than 56K followers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uan0z45eox\">https:\/\/t.co\/Uan0z45eox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanLamothe\/status\/2032638464093458867?\">March 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>None of these individuals appear to be the service members killed in the crash, although we don&rsquo;t know their identities as of Friday night. It&rsquo;s safe to assume that Bergdahl wasn&rsquo;t involved in any way, though.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yeah see that was the Secret Joint Airborne Refueling and Paratrooping &amp; Admin Squadron, led by a guy who deserted to the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CynicalPublius\/status\/2032688095439761440?\">March 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And what&rsquo;s perhaps most insulting is how slapdash this all was. As one commenter noted, even the Bergdahl picture appears to be lifted from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/deep-dive-blackballed-news-sources-woke-wikipedia-hates-yep-western-journal-made-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a> page:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bowe Bergdahl? Really?<br \/> You can&rsquo;t even troll well. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZFEqDRm2GN\">pic.twitter.com\/ZFEqDRm2GN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GlammaSooz (@GlammaSooz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlammaSooz\/status\/2032697655034265652?\">March 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Good work. Sure no one will be able to trace that one.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/iran-strikes-flooded-x-much-ai-disinformation-went-crawling-back-cable-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poorly done AI slop<\/a> Iranian-run accounts have put out during the hostilities, they were already running on low trust with anyone who thinks critically about this stuff. 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The U.S.-led coalition maintains complete air superiority over Iranian airspace, similar to what happened in the 12-Day War last summer. While American forces have suffered only minor losses (three F-15Es downed by friendly fire in Kuwait), Iran\u2019s effort consists mainly of limited missile strikes and low-tech drone attacks.<br \/>\n&#8211; A KC-135 air-refueling tanker crashed in western Iraq during a mission. The initial statement said the incident involved neither hostile nor friendly fire, but details about crew injuries or even how many were aboard were unclear. Later, U.S. Central Command announced that all six crew members on the KC-135 were confirmed deceased.<br \/>\n&#8211; Iran attempted to spin the incident through state media, implying that \u201cresistance forces\u201d allied with Tehran had downed the aircraft. They posted \u201cimages\u201d of the six U.S. crew members, but the visuals were badly flawed. A number of the photos appeared to be of people who were not the victims (e.g., Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and was later exchanged by the U.S.). Other images included Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt. Ryan Pitts, which did not correspond to the incident.<br \/>\n&#8211; Journalists and military observers quickly pointed out the inaccuracies, noting the propaganda was slipshod and undermined by recognizable, unrelated photos. The general takeaway is that the propaganda effort was poorly executed and damaged Iran\u2019s credibility rather than credibly advancing its narrative.<br \/>\n&#8211; In short, the crash was not attributed to Iranian air defenses, and while Iran\u2019s state media tried to leverage the event for propaganda, the execution was conspicuously flawed, and there is no clear evidence tying the incident to Iranian forces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2579925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-03-14T153849.302.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32404,73309,74723,50738,73203],"class_list":["post-2579924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-geopolitics","tag-international-news-2","tag-military-conflict-2","tag-misinformation-2","tag-us-iran-relations-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-03-14T153849.302.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2579924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579928,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579924\/revisions\/2579928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2579925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}