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Iran says U.S. bears blame for Iranian forces shooting down plane
CBS "News" ^ | January 14, 2020

Posted on 01/14/2020 11:28:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Iran said Tuesday that dozens of people had been arrested over the Islamic Republic's apparently unintentional shooting down of a Ukrainian jetliner last week. The arrests come amid Iranian vows to fully and openly investigate the firing of the surface-to-air missile that downed the plane, killing all 176 people on board.

But while Iran confessed to shooting the jet down — three days after the fact and under intense international pressure — its president asserted Tuesday that the "root causes" of the tragedy were U.S. actions.

"It was the U.S. that caused such an incident to take place," Iran's state-controlled news agency Tasnim quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying. The Iranian regime has blamed the Trump administration for ratcheting up tensions with the controversial decision to kill senior Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a January 2 drone strike in Baghdad.

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1 posted on 01/14/2020 11:28:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The fault lies with Mad Mo’.


2 posted on 01/14/2020 11:29:46 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

i swear that the left and the terrorists in the middle east are out to out stupid each other=-


3 posted on 01/14/2020 11:30:56 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Paladin2

I am sure The Washington Post and New York Times will agree with this assessment.


4 posted on 01/14/2020 11:31:11 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Supplied with Democrat party talking points?


5 posted on 01/14/2020 11:31:16 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CBS reporting Blame America First
what a surprise


6 posted on 01/14/2020 11:31:35 AM PST by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it weren’t so disgusting and troubling, it would be hilarious that the Iranians are channeling the American Left.


7 posted on 01/14/2020 11:31:59 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not true, and yet it is the Mullahs who bear the blame for our killing their general Soleimani. ALL his terrorist activities were on their direction.


8 posted on 01/14/2020 11:32:35 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“”””””””” apparently unintentional shooting down of a Ukrainian jetliner last week”””””””””””””””””

President Trump “apparently accidentally” blew up the general, too. Two can play at that game.


9 posted on 01/14/2020 11:32:44 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: rlmorel

The MSM handed this tact to the mullahs on a silver platter.


10 posted on 01/14/2020 11:34:42 AM PST by downtownconservative (I)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Must have been secretly talking to Pelosi and the rest of the Demiranians.


11 posted on 01/14/2020 11:36:58 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How do I know it was “unintentional”?

I’m certainly not about to take SeeBS “News” word for it.


12 posted on 01/14/2020 11:37:29 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
IOW, the mullahcracy will endorse either Psychojawea, or the Fairy Princess.

13 posted on 01/14/2020 11:37:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump’s fault.

Good.

The President is in their heads! 24/7

Soon he will start dismantling their brains. He is already at it, Tweeting in Farsi..

Kudos to president Trump.

Deterrence instead of Appeasement.

You can tell its working extremely well by t he spin doctors in the Fale News aligning them selves with a genocidal totalitarian regime.

ATTA GO fake news.

Meanwhile listen to this. President Trump is Going to win November with a 40 + state landslide.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1216890106277007361


14 posted on 01/14/2020 11:38:03 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many rockets, missiles or other projectiles did the U.S. launch at Tehran in response to their aggression?

Zero? Okay, that’s the level of our country’s responsibility for what Iran did.


15 posted on 01/14/2020 11:38:55 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat actually gets prosecuted. ))))
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related story:

16 posted on 01/14/2020 11:39:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are just following the lead of the dems and their media puppetmasters, and Trudeau.


17 posted on 01/14/2020 11:39:57 AM PST by euram
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To: rlmorel

Somebody here posited that Iran planned the shootdown in expectation that the US would raid Tehran that night.

And the blame America narrative was pre-coordinated.


18 posted on 01/14/2020 11:40:02 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

c”bs” KNOWS Iran was killing witnesses to its
nuclear deal with Kerry and Obola.

typical MSM coverup for enemies of the usa.


19 posted on 01/14/2020 11:40:43 AM PST by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have no doubt Nancy Pelosi probably contacted them and told them - this would be the most effective narrative at this time.


20 posted on 01/14/2020 11:43:17 AM PST by PGR88
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