Middle East crisis live: US and Iranian forces race to recover missing pilot from downed jet; Israel bombards Beirut

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it was combing an area near where plane came down in south-western Iran; Israeli military strikes ‘Hezbollah infrastructure’ in Lebanon capital US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran releases wreckage images Hello and welcome to our continuing live coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran and its impact on the region, the world and the global economy. Iranian and American forces were racing each other early on Saturday to recover a crew member of the first US fighter jet to go down inside Iran since the start of the war. Tehran rejected a US proposal for a 48-hour ceasefire, said Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, citing an unnamed source.