[ April 19, 2024 ]
It’s taken the media days to catch up and reluctantly report on what Geller Report reported the day of the crash, that Iran shot down that passenger plane. In their haste to cover for their jihad cause du jour, they insist it was a mistake. It wasn’t. The idea that Iran mistook flight 737 for a US military plane is absurd on its face. There are no Us military planes at Tehran airport.
Why the urgent rush to give the Islamic Republic a free pass in taking down a passenger jet? Monsters. Consider the stark difference between the West’s response to the German sinking of the passenger ship, the Lusitania. America has come to the parting of the ways with her allies when she must determine whether she stands for civilized or savage warfare.
Iran fired TWO missiles at jet liner and blew it out the sky after ‘mistaking it for US bomber’
- Iran fired TWO missiles at jet liner and blew it out the sky after ‘mistaking it for US bomber’: Satellites saw tragedy unfold, reveal spies as western airlines avoid airspace and chilling video shows missile hitting 737 with 176 aboard
- Satellite data detected two surface-to-air missiles being launched just minutes after the Boeing 737 took off
- It is feared Iran may have shot down the plane by mistake, possibly mistaking it for a US military plane
- Footage which emerged last night showed the Ukrainian passenger jet exploding in mid-air after it was hit
- Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau and Boris Johnson have all blamed Iran for the crash which killed 176 people
- Iran has called the Western claims a ‘big lie’ and ‘psychological warfare’ in a fresh burst of angry rhetoric
By Danyl HUSSAIN and Tim STICKINGS for Mail Online, 10 January 2020:
Story continues below advertisementIran fired two missiles at the Ukrainian passenger jet which crashed near Tehran and killed 176 people, it is believed.
Satellite data detected two surface-to-air missiles being launched just minutes after the Boeing 737 took off, the US government says.
It is believed that Iran may have shot the plane down unintentionally, possibly mistaking it for a military jet just hours after Tehran had attacked US bases in Iraq.
Footage which emerged last night showed the Ukrainian International Airlines jet exploding in mid-air after it was hit, killing all 167 passengers and nine crew on board.
Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau and Boris Johnson have all blamed Iran for the downing of the plane as Western governments rejected Tehran’s claims of a technical failure.
Iran called the Western claims a ‘big lie’ and ‘psychological warfare’ in a fresh burst of angry rhetoric, after its relatively inconsequential strikes on US bases had sparked hopes that Middle East tensions were calming.
Tehran says it is ‘opening’ the plane’s black boxes today, but has sent mixed signals about who will be allowed to investigate them.
The crisis forced Western planes heading to Iran to turn around in mid-air last night, with many of today’s flights to Tehran cancelled by the carriers.
America’s Federal Aviation Administration had banned US airlines from flying over Iran just hours before the crash, potentially saving American lives from a misdirected shoot-down.
An image of anti-aircraft missile debris, supposedly from near the site of the downed Ukrainian Airlines flight, shared on social media.
Tehran has been insisting for two days that the crash was an ‘accident’ unrelated to the wider Middle East tensions and caused by a technical failure which had forced the pilot to turn around in mid-air.But last night Western governments came down firmly on the side of a missile strike.
Justin Trudeau, who has demanded answers for the families of 63 Canadians killed in the crash, said he had ‘intelligence from multiple sources’ pointing to a shoot-down.
‘The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile,’ he said, adding that the strike ‘may well have been unintentional’.
Donald Trump also rejected Iran’s claims of a mechanical fault.
‘It was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood. Somebody could have made a mistake,’ Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday. ‘I have a feeling that something very terrible happened, very devastating.’
UK prime minister Boris Johnson said there was ‘now a body of information that the flight was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile’, while France has also offered help with the investigation.
US intelligence says the Boeing 737 was tracked by satellite data which showed the plane airborne for two minutes before detecting the heat signatures of two surface-to-air missiles.
That was quickly followed by an explosion, officials say, before infrared emissions from the plane showed it burning as it crashed to the ground.
Multiple videos have shown the plane already ablaze before it hit the ground.
It was unlikely the flight crew had time to react to any missile, said Michael Duitsman, a research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
‘They probably wouldn’t have even seen it coming,’ he said. ‘Right after takeoff, the pilots were probably preoccupied with other things.’
Tehran-bound flights turned around last night after Western leaders blamed a missile strike for the crash.
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29 Comments
4 years ago
Iran shoots down a Ukrainian passenger plane with a Russian missile and yet according to Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier it’s somehow all Trumps fault
4 years ago
Reply to
1PierreMontagne1
Well he showed no anger at Iran at the press conference. See John Ivison’s article in The National Post.
4 years ago
No one has identified who was on the flight that might have “strategic significance.” A Canadian? A Ukrainian? An Iranian who had fingered Soleimani?
4 years ago
Reply to
Acton 27
amen. this was no “accident”. my guess is that a high-ranking persian was defecting and got on that plane
4 years ago
France Warns Iran Could Have Nuclear Weapon Within One To Two Years
https://www.rferl.org/a/france-warns-iran-could-have-nuclear-weapon-within-one-to-two-years/30370205.html
This would have happened with or without the JCPOA agreement
4 years ago
Reply to
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
NATO Secretary-General: Iranian missile system likely caused crash of Ukrainian plane
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
the NATO SG said the opposite but I guess he was not taking his lithium battery pills for some weeks
4 years ago
Reply to
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
NATO has no doubt that Ukrainian plane shot down by Iranian missile, – Stoltenberg
https://112.international/ukraine-top-news/nato-has-no-doubt-that-ukrainian-plane-shot-down-by-iranian-missile-stoltenberg-47386.html
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
They are closer than that. They have been in contact with the North Korean nuclear scientists.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
Yes, Iran and the Norks collaborate. Of course, one nuke is not enough, and the delivery device must be very reliable. Also, in the past, Iran could have snuck in shipping containers with nukes onto the USA, and threatened war via Iranian proxy terrorists. That won’t work now, that Trump is on the job. Any nuke action or threats are likely to result in an aggressive response from Trump, directly aimed at Iran.
4 years ago
these are the “people” that the muslim president shipped our cash to on wooden pallets. our money probably paid for the missiles that murdered the souls on that plane. if you voted for obama, you murdered these people
4 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Canada too has also been sending millions of cash dollar as aid to Iran. Did Canada’s money buy the missiles???
4 years ago
This is a terribly tragic event, probably an accident, as a result of heightened military tensions between the USA and Iran.
However, did you perchance miss the time when the United States Navy shot down an innocent Iranian airliner, killing 114 *more* people than in this incident?
4 years ago
Reply to
Christoph Dollis
No, but did you miss that “no US military planes were in Tehran”, as compared to the incident you referenced, military air-vehicles were a possibility at the time the Iranian plane was shot down. A not so subtle difference.
4 years ago
This was NO accident but a deliberate act of murder.
4 years ago
Would we call that a pinpoint attack or lucky? Many saying Iran has no missiles to pinpoint attack anything. I would say this pretty much blows a hole in that assumption.
4 years ago
Don’t worry it was just a psychotic episode from a muslim military. He will take his lithium battery pills and he will be better.
4 years ago
All they can do is shoot down passenger planes and lie.
4 years ago
So Canadian PM Trudeau announces the plane was shot down by a missile fired by the
Iranians and that Canada’s Transportation Safety Investigators have been
invited by Iran to come to Iran and investigate. Trudeau announces the
investigators will depart shortly. Trudeau was also suggesting it was
all Donald Trumps fault?
So what does Trudeau say now that the Iranians have bulldozed the scene before the Canadian investigators arrive???
4 years ago
Unhinged barbarians. When their Mullahs are all in one place, eliminate.
4 years ago
The Iranians Now admit to firing the missile that brought the passenger jet down but still want to put the blame on the USA for killing a terrorist organiser in another country (Iraq).
We are dealing with men who have the mindsets of unruly and delinquent children and they must never be allowed to possess nuclear weapons or the world is finished.
4 years ago
The international community needs to blocade Iran so that it can’t sell its oil except perhaps to Russia through a pipeline which could eventually also be destroyed. The regime will fall as it could soon no longer pay its army, etc. though of course some of Obama’s billion plus gift may still be left. The rest is just talk.
4 years ago
so what have we learn in last few planes shot down ??? tell you the Russian air defense system Can’t do what they base claim it can do LOL like those New Sub’s sitting at bottom black sea .R.A…Can’t ID the planes ..what They are ..just old Sam systems WHAT WE LEARN we learn the russian are back at old cold war games There Faking their High tec again !!!,,that means all we got do is send 1000 cheap drones ahead our B-52 bombers to clear the way..IN fact i’ll go far say that what happen in Africa was pretty much the same ??? {{{ 2 }}}fact all Boeing 737 around world are grounded ,,,so where hell this one come from
