These special combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopters, which have an advanced FLIR system, multi-purpose radars, can fly very low, and have electronic warfare equipment, entered the airspace of the Islamic Republic, and one HC-130J Combat King II, which is an aerial tanker.
They were filling their tanks in a mountainous region in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province and then departed from Iranian airspace at the southern boundaries. Western media reports claimed that they had rescued the American pilot, without any evidence.
In the early hours of April 5 — two days after the initial incident — reports emerged of fierce confrontations and gunfire at multiple locations in southwestern Iran.
Iranian police forces (Faraja) and local tribesmen engaged in encounters with special forces of the American regime, which had entered Iranian airspace for a second time.
Simultaneously with these clashes, several telecommunication towers in Dehdasht, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, were struck to severely disrupt communications between the Islamic Republic’s defending forces.