Former Pentagon official hails US rescue, calls Iran "paper tiger"

Iran Herald · April 7, 2026 War

Washington DC [US], April 7 (ANI): In the wake of a high-stakes operation to rescue a downed US F-15 pilot within Iranian territory, Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), has characterised the mission as a definitive display of American military supremacy and a total exposure of Iranian weakness.