{"id":250200,"date":"2026-08-15T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/250200\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:32:25","slug":"iranian-military-pilots-held-in-qatari-captivity-after-capture-six-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/250200\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian military pilots held in Qatari captivity after capture six months ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Iranian military pilots have been held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-905226\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qatar<\/a> for the past six months after being captured by Qatari forces, Iran International reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The report cited the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-905474\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iranian Armed Forces<\/a> General Staff\u2019s committee for missing personnel commander Mohammad Bagherzadeh, who disclosed the information in a letter to International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, appealing for help securing the pilots&#8217; release.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the pilots were taken into Qatari custody after their Russian-made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-905112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sukhoi<\/a> Su-24 tactical bombers were struck in March during a mission against what Tehran described as &#8220;an enemy military base&#8221; in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Qatari authorities did not immediately confirm the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Bagherzadeh noted in the letter that the pilots have not been permitted to speak to their families or Iranian officials while in Qatari captivity, according to Iran International.<\/p>\n<p>The report identified the pilots as Javad Salehi, Abdolmajid Dashtian, and Omran Behraveshian, and Iranian officials previously confirmed that an additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-905522\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pilot<\/a>, Majid Kazemi, was returned to Iran after a military operation against Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Iranian military pilots have been held in Qatar for the past six months after being captured by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[3763,1965,513,34,3761,271,7035,69],"class_list":["post-250200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-aircraft","tag-doha","tag-fighter-jets","tag-iran","tag-pilot","tag-qatar","tag-red-cross","tag-tehran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117099780323581430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}