New Delhi, April 7 -- US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) addressed a press conference, detailing the recent rescue of two US Air Force F-15 pilots who fell in Iranian territory on 3 April. Trump claimed that someone in his administration "leaked" critical information regarding the rescue mission to the media.

Elaborating further, he threatened to jail the journalist who first reported that US forces were searching for an F-15 weapons officer who was shot down in Iran, if they do not reveal their sources. He said, "The person who did the story will go to jail if he doesn't say, and that doesn't last long."

While the US President did not name the journalist or the news organization, he said the leak tipped off the Iranians, ...