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Zelensky seeks justice after Iran apologizes for shooting down Ukrainian plane, killing 176 people
Kyiv Post ^ | 11JAN2019 | Brian Bonner

Posted on 01/11/2020 1:20:58 AM PST by AdmSmith

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, after Iran admitted shooting down a Ukrainian airline and killing all 176 people on board, called for assurances from Tehran “of readiness for a full and open investigation, bringing those responsible to justice, the return of the bodies of the dead, payment of compensation, official apologies through diplomatic channels.”
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A statement by the Iranian Armed Forces on Jan. 11:
3. In such critical and critical conditions, Flight PS752 of the Ukrainian airlines departs from Imam Khomeini Airport and, while in rotation, is completely approaching a sensitive military center of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps and at altitude and in form of a hostile flight. In these circumstances, the plane was accidentally hit by human error and, unfortunately, which unfortunately results in the martyrdom of dear compatriots and the death of a number of foreign nationals.

4. The Armed Forces staff, while expressing condolences and sympathy to the grieving families of other countries and the apologies for the human error, giving full assurance that the pursuit of fundamental reforms in the operational processes at the Armed Forces level can be repeated. Make such errors impossible and immediately report the culprit to the Armed Forces Judicial Organization in order to deal with any legal errors.
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Ukrainian lawyer and aviation expert Andriy Guck said that Ukraine shouldn’t accept Iran’s “unintentional attack” explanation and demand full admittance of guilt.

“The human error is the reason only for the missile to be fired but it is not the only reason for this disaster,” he said on Facebook. “The investigation must continue and look into such reasons as why Iran didn’t close its airspace, why this plane was allowed to take off from the airport, and how the sides of the conflict failed to guarantee the safety of the civilian flights. These are the duties of the state that they failed to perform, not just the mistakes of certain people.”

Guck cited the lawyers representing Ukraine in international courts against Russia in the case of Russian military shooting down the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing 283 people on board. The Ukrainian lawyers, he said, insist that when military shoot a missile intending to hit a military plane, but at the same time can’t unmistakably discern a civilian aircraft from a military one, such an attack is defined as intentional.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iff; iran; iranlies; iranmurderers; mullahloversonfr; ps752; putinsbuttboys; russia; transponder; ukraine
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To: fidelis

If they do pick a fall guy, he’s gonna fall far :)

Probably death


41 posted on 01/11/2020 6:07:32 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: BobL

Nobody is asking how it got tower clearance for take off.


42 posted on 01/11/2020 6:08:35 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: AdmSmith

That’s not enough.

It’s lip service because they know they are on thin ice with the world already.


43 posted on 01/11/2020 6:09:57 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: AdmSmith

Iran has shown itself to be more civilised than Russia,” pro-western Ukraine MP Volodymyr Ariev wrote on Facebook.

“Tehran has admitted its guilt in three days while Russia continues to try to get out of it.”

(AFP article)


44 posted on 01/11/2020 6:21:10 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Mariner

“Nobody is asking how it got tower clearance for take off.”

If I had to guess, they didn’t have a plan in place...so no one thought to. We didn’t do any better as it was only AFTER that plane went down that we told our aircraft to scatter. That should have been done 12 hours earlier.


45 posted on 01/11/2020 6:21:31 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't don't tell anyone.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; AdmSmith; metmom

Forgot to mention he’s referring to Flight MH 17

Iran has shown itself to be more civilised than Russia,” pro-western Ukraine MP Volodymyr Ariev wrote on Facebook.

“Tehran has admitted its guilt in three days while Russia continues to try to get out of it.”

(AFP article)


46 posted on 01/11/2020 6:26:51 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Rashputin
I don't believe for a second that the Russians shot down MH17

Dutch investigators are charging three Russians, Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov, and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko for their involvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnzv-JO3GAA

47 posted on 01/11/2020 6:28:39 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: existentially_kuffer; All

THAT WAR IS THIS:
MSM and reporting news agencies reporting knowingly avoid referencing the religious aspect of these conflicts. Portraying the conflicts going on between entities in the area as territorial when they are actually sectarian. Based on enforcing absolute conformity to a theocracy. That orders followers to adhere to Koranic laws who’s theological assertions have gone unquestioned or unchallenged by leading monotheistic religious leaders like Pope Francis. Followers obeying what they claim are Our Creator’s orders which has them authorized by God to execute unbelievers including those fleeing the area they control.


48 posted on 01/11/2020 6:51:08 AM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Dutch Investigators, ah yes, sort of like the Warren Report.


49 posted on 01/11/2020 7:47:43 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Samurai_Jack

You obviously have no clue as to how to handle bullies.


50 posted on 01/11/2020 7:50:03 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Yeah, I agree too. This is a profoundly teachable moment — a moment for the Iranian people to realize how disgusting their government is. It won’t sink in if we’re seen as pressurizing and leveraging the situation.


51 posted on 01/11/2020 7:54:34 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Rashputin; Hot Tabasco

Girkin bragged and took credit for the shoot down of MH17 when the Russians thought it was a Ukrainian plane. It wasn’t until hours later that everyone realized it was an airliner that the Russians had shot down.


52 posted on 01/11/2020 7:56:21 AM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90
Right, a pickle shot it down and all the evidence they ignored but others studied then reached a different conclusion is BS.

Iow, it's like Steele being right because he bragged about having connections.

Gotcha

53 posted on 01/11/2020 7:58:31 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: eartick

There is no relationship between any earthquake and any missile.

Iranian earthquakes the last days above 2.5 in magnitude:

4.7 38km WNW of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran 2020-01-09 10:51:58 (UTC) Depth 7.7 km

4.5 17km SSE of Borazjan, Iran 2020-01-08 03:19:13 (UTC) Depth 10.0 km

4.9 10km SE of Borazjan, Iran 2020-01-08 02:20:02 (UTC) Depth 10.0 km

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/


54 posted on 01/11/2020 8:05:54 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

No.


55 posted on 01/11/2020 8:07:24 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

And they want us to trust them w nukes?


56 posted on 01/11/2020 8:14:31 AM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: a fool in paradise
Demand that Iran give your nation $150billion

Iran should pay compensation for the passengers killed and to the Ukrainian airline etc. That process will take years.
57 posted on 01/11/2020 8:16:42 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: radu

$16 mill is the going price for death caused by willful negligence. That’s $2.816 billion in damages. That pallet of cash from Obama is going to come in handy.


58 posted on 01/11/2020 8:18:12 AM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: AdmSmith

+100


59 posted on 01/11/2020 8:19:18 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Yardstick; Samurai_Jack; nuconvert
The Iranian regime assumed that the funeral of Soleimani would stop the demonstrations against them, but then there was an attack against a civilian aircraft:

Special Pasdaran Unit of #Iran's Islamic Regime Police is now brutally attacking & suppressing #AmirKabir university students who are protesting against #Iran's Islamic Regime over shot-down of Flight #PS752 of #Ukraine International Airlines by #IRGC|ASF’s Tor-M1.
https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee/status/1216016169087442944

more videos here https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee

60 posted on 01/11/2020 8:29:29 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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