Trump jokes about keeping Iran's oil as crews desperately search for downed pilot
April 3, 2026
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President Donald Trump joked about confiscating Iran's oil as search crews were desperately trying to find a fighter pilot who was downed in the war-torn country.KEEP THE OIL, ANYONE? Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday while the search was underway.Hours earlier, an F-15E crashed in southern Iran. One pilot was rescued, and a search for the second pilot was reportedly in progress.Iran was reportedly offering its citizens a reward valued at about 76,000 U.S.
dollars to find the missing pilot alive, CNN reported.A second combat aircraft, an A-10 Warthog, crashed in the Persian Gulf at about the same time, officials told The New York Times.
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