{"id":9627,"date":"2026-04-06T17:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:55:41","slug":"130067245-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9627","title":{"rendered":"\u2018God was watching us\u2019: Donald Trump hails rescue of pilots from Iran, warns media over leak &#8211; top quotes &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130068069,imgsize-857341,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/article-7.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018God was watching us\u2019: Donald Trump hails rescue of pilots from Iran, warns media over leak - top quotes\" title=\"US President Donald Trump holds press conference\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"US President Donald Trump holds press conference\">US President Donald Trump holds press conference<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>US President Donald Trump on Monday held a press conference on Monday giving as his 48-hour deadline set for Iran looms. The US president gave out details on the 2 airmen rescued after US jets went down in Iranian territory, while reiterating his warnings to &#8216;take out Iran&#8217;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>During a press conference, he said, &#8220;Iran could be \u2060taken out \u200cin one night.&#8221; He also mentioned how military worked in the &#8220;historic operation&#8221;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Here&#8217;s what the US President said in the news conference<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"6\">\n<ul>\n<li>Amid the looming deadline to open Strait of Hormuz, he said, &#8220;Iran could be \u2060taken out \u200cin one night, and that \u2060night might be tomorrow night.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;US military personnel faced gunfire at very close range during rescue in Iran,&#8221; said the US President, referring to the rescue operation for the two pilots, adding that &#8220;God was watching us&#8221; while talking about its success.<\/li>\n<li>He further added, &#8220;Second rescue mission in Iran involved 155 aircraft.&#8221; Trump also said more than 170 US military aircraft were deployed in the Iran rescue mission, including 21 in the first operation and 155 in the second, adding that two transport planes were destroyed after getting stuck in sand.<\/li>\n<li>Donald Trump alleged that details of the Iran pilot rescue operation were leaked. He said that he would \u201cask the media organisation to reveal the name\u201d of the Iran rescue leak source, warning it was a \u201cnational security\u201d issue and that the person responsible could face jail if they don&#8217;t cooperate.<\/li>\n<li>Further revealing more details, he continued, &#8220;it included four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refueling tankers, 13 rescue aircraft, among others.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/god-was-watching-us-donald-trump-hails-iran-pilot-rescue-op-warns-media-over-leak-top-quotes\/articleshow\/130067245.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump holds press conference US President Donald Trump on Monday held a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24089,24091,24093,24072,24092,24090],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump-iran-rescue-operation","tag-iran-pilot-rescue-operation-details","tag-national-security-iran-leak","tag-strait-of-hormuz-deadline","tag-trump-press-conference-iran","tag-us-military-iran-pilot-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}