First these blundering Iranians stampeded to death more than 50 people at the Soleimani funeral.
And now this.
The Ukrainian flight that crashed just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran was struck by an anti-aircraft missile system, a Pentagon official, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek. None of the officials was authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a Boeing 737–800 en route from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airpot to Kyiv’s Boryspil International Airport, stopped transmitting data Tuesday just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched missiles at military bases housing U.S. and allied forces in neighboring Iraq. The aircraft is believed to have been struck by a Russia-built Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system, known to NATO as Gauntlet, the three officials told Newsweek.
One Pentagon and one U.S. senior intelligence official told Newsweek that the Pentagon’s assessment is that the incident was accidental. Iran’s anti-aircraft systems were likely active following the country’s missile attack, which came in response to the U.S. killing last week of Revolutionary Guard Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, sources said.
… Images began to circulate Wednesday of what appeared to be fragments of a Tor M-1 missile said to have been found in a suburb southwest of Tehran. Ukraine Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danylov said Thursday in a statement that contact with a Tor M-1 system was among the potential causes for the plane’s destruction that his country was looking into as Ukrainian and Iranian officials met.
Other potential scenarios involved a collision with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or another flying object, technical malfunction and a terrorist attack.
It’s looking increasingly likely that Iran shot down the Ukrainian airliner full of Iranians, killing 176 of their own people, in some kind of accident or mistaken identity.
This video purportedly shows the mid-air explosion from the missile.
This is supposedly video or the Ukrainian Airlines 737 being shot down by an Iranian antiaircraft missile. pic.twitter.com/c8pTiLmkrj
— WorldNews911 (@WorldNews9II) January 9, 2020
Or maybe these imbecilic Iranians were trying to engineer a false-flag that they could blame on the US to deter Trump from attacking any more Iranian targets in Iraq.
That would be kind of insane, though.
Who knows.
The video appears to show the plane getting hit by a missile. So it looks like the Great Anti-ZOG Heroes of Iran are really just bumbling goat-herding buffoons.
What a total goat-herding mess these Iranians are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
The reason for the shootdown has been disputed between the governments of the two countries. According to the United States government, the crew of USS Vincennes had incorrectly identified the Airbus as an attacking F-14 Tomcat, a U.S.-made jet fighter that had been part of the Iranian Air Force inventory since the 1970s.
After 30 years of accusations, Iran itself did the same. Kremlin (who would doubt!) blames it on America.
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/1214236608196685824
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/01/02/dispatches-from-asgardsrei-ukraines-annual-neo-nazi-music-festival/ ha-ha-ha
Now Iran destroys evidences
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1215633920961785862
Horseshit! The pic of the crashsite is so staged and ameturish obviously that “wreckage” came from some CIA junksite and Mossad was being prosecuted for selling parts from a plane downed in Columbia and strewn on the Pentagon lawn on 9/11 this is bullshit start to finish but it fits Martinez agenda he knows this is 100 % bs sorry to call bs but…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-says-unintentionally-shot-down-034030154.html
Iran says it ‘unintentionally’ shot down Ukrainian jetliner
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible.
The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on two military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an American airstrike in Baghdad. No one was wounded in the attack on the bases.
A military statement carried by state media said the plane was mistaken for a “hostile target” after it turned toward a “sensitive military center” of the Revolutionary Guard. The military was at its “highest level of readiness,” it said, amid the heightened tensions with the United States.
“In such a condition, because of human error and in a unintentional way, the flight was hit,” the statement said. It apologized for the disaster and said it would upgrade its systems to prevent such “mistakes” in the future.
It also said those responsible for the strike on the plane would be prosecuted.
The jetliner, a Boeing 737 operated by Ukrainian International Airlines, went down on the outskirts of Tehran shortly after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport.
Iran had denied for several days that a missile caused the crash. But then the U.S. and Canada, citing intelligence, said they believed Iran shot down the aircraft.
The plane, en route to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, was carrying 167 passengers and nine crew members from several countries, including 82 Iranians, at least 57 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians, according to officials. The Canadian government had earlier lower the nation’s death toll from 63.