{"id":260061,"date":"2026-08-22T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260061\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:55:11","slug":"iran-urges-qatar-to-relocate-detained-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260061\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran urges Qatar to relocate detained pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian military official called on Qatar on Saturday to transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-905681\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">detained Iranian pilots<\/a> to a hospital on land, saying they were being held on water and were in &#8220;poor physical condition,&#8221; Tasnim news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Bagherzadeh, commander of the Committee for the Search for Missing Persons of Iran&#8217;s Armed Forces General Staff, said the location where the pilots were being held was unsuitable and requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross send an air ambulance to Qatar to expedite the return of injured and sick detainees to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-905628\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-905579\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qatar denied<\/a> last week that it was holding Iranian pilots, saying they had violated Qatari airspace earlier this year and failed to respond to attempts to contact them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-904839\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doha<\/a> said it had contacted Iran to coordinate the handover of the remains of one pilot and had invited Tehran to review details of its search and rescue operations, but had received no response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday that the invitation remained open for an Iranian delegation to visit over the pilots&#8217; issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In his latest statement, Bagherzadeh welcomed Qatar\u2019s decision to receive a team of Iranian experts and called on Doha to provide them with the necessary cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Bagherzadeh had previously said an Iranian Air Force expert and fact-finding team had been waiting for months to enter Qatar and accused Qatari officials of repeatedly delaying the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Iranian military official called on Qatar on Saturday to transfer detained Iranian pilots to a hospital on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1965,34,975,271],"class_list":["post-260061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-doha","tag-iran","tag-prison","tag-qatar"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117138799081458303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260061","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=260061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}