Mohammad Baqerzadeh, commander of the Missing Persons Search Committee of the Armed Forces General Staff of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said that three Iranian pilots whose fighter jets were shot down over Qatar in Esfand 1404 are alive and being held in captivity by Qatari forces. He, in a letter to “Mariana Spuliarić,” head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, requested that representatives of this organization meet with the pilots, examine their health status, and that conditions be provided for their release.