Posted on 01/07/2020 9:24:04 PM PST by Helicondelta
PAX info. by country of citizenship...mostly Canadians and Iranians:
https://twitter.com/Aviation_NewsTW/status/1214808803528458242
It was a commercial flight. 8 million tourists visited Iran last year. Supposedly there are interesting sights to see. Canadians were the largest group of foreigners on that flight.
For the record, the US killed Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds force, which is a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The commander-in-chief of the IRGC is Hossein Salami, who is still alive.
That’s all the info we are going to get. By now the Iranians have destroyed all the evidence. Case closed.
Accepting for arguments sake that this was an Iranian SAM, was Iran sending a message to nations that align themselves with the US that they’re opening themselves to Iranian reprisals?
Interesting that just the other day Khameini (or one of his cabinet members) specifically mentioned the American shootdown of the Iranian airliner in the 1980s. He tweeted something like “if we’re going to think of numbers, let’s not just think of 52 but also of 200, the number onboard the downed Iranian airliner.” Now we have 180 dead on a Ukranian airliner.
Any chance Iran suspects Ukraine of running intel operations against Iran on behalf of the US? If so, I wonder if there may be a Russian counterintel connection here. I note Putin was in Syria the other day as an indirect show of support for Iran.
Was it a message to Europe, warning them not to support a tightening of US sanctions or commercial isolation of Iran?
IOW, was the shootdown Iran’s *real* message of warning and revenge today? Did Iran “allow” it to happen? Their excuse being of course a jittery trigger finger, understandable since they feared a counterattack by the unpredictable bully Trump — and, besides, the US did the same thing in the ‘80s.
It all seems like a reach but the thought comes to mind.
Well that’ll learn them.
Some people speculate that Iran was really the one behind the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie bombing and that was their revenge (happened 6 months after the Iranian airliner was shot down).
MSM won’t confirm because they are promoting their Iranian heroes?
Source?
He is wrong. Here is a source saying it wasn’t MAX - https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2020/01/08/no-boeing-737-crashed-iran-not-737-max/2840651001/
Just like my oldest son trying to convince me his little brother accidentally ran into my oldest son’s clinched fist.
Watch. It’s going to be spun to blame Trump.
Watch. It’s going to be spun to blame Trump.
With Canadians on board that plane, I am sure Trudeau will stand with Trump. (sarc)
This report says the plane was a 737-800, which is not a 737 MAX:
Oops. We thought Rudy was on board.
Better it look like an accident than murder?
Who was on that plane...?
Quds Force Missile Battery Commander, taking aim at known Ukrainian Air Liner:
” Ukrainians are all kaffirs!”
“KEEL ALL Infidels.”
“Release our missile”
“Alawahoo Wahackbar!”
This is bad...will Iran get in trouble half as much as Trump did for saying he would hit cultural sites...Iran just killed a lot of innocent people Prayers for the families of those killed
I liked the Iranians I knew back in the days of the Shah. And I have had good experience with more than a few expatriates.
But the leadership over there is poison.
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