{"id":260088,"date":"2026-08-22T11:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260088\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:17:11","slug":"shafaq-news-tehran-qatar-held-iranian-pilots-in-poor-health-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260088\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafaq News..Tehran: Qatar-held Iranian pilots in \u2018poor health\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three Iranian pilots held by Qatar are in poor physical condition, military official Mohammad Bagherzadeh said on Saturday, calling for their transfer to a hospital on land.<\/p>\n

Bagherzadeh, head of the Iranian Armed Forces’ Missing Persons Search Committee, told Iranian state media that the pilots were being held offshore in unsuitable conditions.<\/p>\n

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has denied holding the pilots, instead saying Qatari forces \u201cacted\u201d after Iranian aircraft violated the country’s airspace and failed to respond to attempts at communication. Search-and-rescue teams later recovered the remains of one pilot.<\/p>\n

On August 16, Bagherzadeh accused Qatari authorities of delaying an Iranian request to send a fact-finding team to investigate<\/a> the pilots’ fate. Qatar’s Foreign Ministry also rejected the allegation and claimed it had invited an Iranian team to review details of its search-and-rescue operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-22T10:37:50+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tehran Three Iranian pilots held by Qatar are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[152,34,3761,271,69,71515],"class_list":["post-260088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-breaking","tag-iran","tag-pilot","tag-qatar","tag-tehran","tag-tehran-qatar-held-iranian-pilots-in-poor-health"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117138885578350822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260088","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=260088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}