The US Spent $6 Billion to Save One Man: What Iran's Strike Eagle Rescue Revealed

Nearly 900 strikes in the first 12 hours alone with 13 Americans killed, 365 wounded by this point with Iran shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for 20% of the world's oil supply. Iran still operates the Bavar 373, a domestically built system roughly comparable to the Russian S-300. At 05:47 local time, a surface-to-air missile slams into the Strike Eagle over the Zagros Mountains in Southwest Iran, in some of the most remote, rugged terrain in the country. >> The colonel climbs a 7,000-ft ridgeline in the Zagros Mountains in the dark with a sprained ankle. They offer a bounty of approximately $60,000. In a country where the average annual salary is roughly 5,000, that is more than a decade of income. A $60,000 bounty in a country where that's life-changing money. Iran searching with thousands of people and a $60,000 bounty.

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