US President Donald Trump’s revelation that a brief radio message from a downed F-15 aircraft initially caused concern in Washington, with officials fearing it could be an Iranian ploy to lure US forces into a trap.“What he said on the radio sounded like something a Muslim would say,” Trump told Axios on Sunday.“He said: ‘Power to God,'” Trump said. A US defense official supported Trump’s version but clarified that the exact words used were “God is good”. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also used the same phrase in a post on Twitter.The US President said that people familiar with the officer said that he was extremely religious, so this comment was in line with his character. Axios quoted a defense official as saying, “It wasn’t completely clear initially, but we stuck to it and verified that he was alive and not captured. And people who knew him said he was religious.”The United States launched a high-risk rescue operation inside Iran to rescue stranded F-15 airmen after their jet was shot down. Under cover of darkness, about 100 special operations forces were dispatched into rugged terrain south of Tehran, climbing a 7,000-foot mountain to reach the wounded weapons expert, who was hiding in a crevice with a sprained ankle. The airman, trained in survival and escape techniques, managed to establish contact and authenticate himself, while the CIA conducted a deception campaign to mislead Iranian forces about his location.Trump described the mission as one of the most “daring” rescue operations in American history.