🔺Claim by an Islamic Republic official: Three Iranian pilots are held captive in Qatar; Doha has not yet responded

▪A senior official in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic has claimed that three Iranian pilots who had been missing in Qatar since the downing of two Su-24 aircraft are alive and that over the past roughly six months they have been in the possession of Qatari forces; a claim that has not been confirmed, as of the time this news was prepared, by the Qatari government or the International Committee of the Red Cross.