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Al Hadath Reporting That Iranian Air Defense Shot Down Ukrainian Airline (180 Dead)
Al Hadath ^ | Jan 8, 2020

Posted on 01/07/2020 9:24:04 PM PST by Helicondelta

Al Hadath stating that the Ukrainian aircraft was shot down accidentally by Iranian air defense systems.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.twitter.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3; again; airplane; aviation; braking; crash; iran; plane; ps752; ukraine
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PAX info. by country of citizenship...mostly Canadians and Iranians:

https://twitter.com/Aviation_NewsTW/status/1214808803528458242


61 posted on 01/07/2020 11:35:21 PM PST by Drago
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

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.


62 posted on 01/07/2020 11:40:19 PM PST by Krosan
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To: aquila48
If Trump hadn’t killed Salami, the Iranians wouldn’t have launched the rockets at the US base today

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.

63 posted on 01/07/2020 11:43:12 PM PST by Mozzafiato
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

That’s all the info we are going to get. By now the Iranians have destroyed all the evidence. Case closed.


64 posted on 01/07/2020 11:53:04 PM PST by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: Helicondelta

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.


65 posted on 01/07/2020 11:59:02 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Well that’ll learn them.


66 posted on 01/08/2020 12:05:06 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: Yardstick

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).


67 posted on 01/08/2020 12:16:15 AM PST by Krosan
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To: Drago

https://fr24.com/data/flights/ps752#23732569


68 posted on 01/08/2020 12:20:15 AM PST by FRinCanada2 (Kanye West 2024 & JOIN the worldwide fight against Human Traffickers !)
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To: Helicondelta

MSM won’t confirm because they are promoting their Iranian heroes?


69 posted on 01/08/2020 12:26:55 AM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Source?


70 posted on 01/08/2020 12:28:04 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives numerous, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: DennisR

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/


71 posted on 01/08/2020 12:30:50 AM PST by Krosan
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To: Yaelle

Just like my oldest son trying to convince me his little brother accidentally ran into my oldest son’s clinched fist.


72 posted on 01/08/2020 12:39:13 AM PST by The Unknown Republican
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To: volunbeer

Watch. It’s going to be spun to blame Trump.


73 posted on 01/08/2020 2:05:19 AM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (God Bless President Trump!)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

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)


74 posted on 01/08/2020 2:24:10 AM PST by taterjay
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To: IndispensableDestiny

This report says the plane was a 737-800, which is not a 737 MAX:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/08/boeing-737-passenger-plane-crashes-in-iran-state-news-agencies-report.html


75 posted on 01/08/2020 3:21:52 AM PST by socialism_stinX (That socialist dog don't hunt.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Oops. We thought Rudy was on board.


76 posted on 01/08/2020 3:22:48 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Helicondelta

Better it look like an accident than murder?

Who was on that plane...?


77 posted on 01/08/2020 3:23:59 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Helicondelta

Quds Force Missile Battery Commander, taking aim at known Ukrainian Air Liner:

” Ukrainians are all kaffirs!”

“KEEL ALL Infidels.”

“Release our missile”

“Alawahoo Wahackbar!”


78 posted on 01/08/2020 3:29:56 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Helicondelta

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


79 posted on 01/08/2020 3:30:52 AM PST by blueyon (`nt to be a nothing burger)
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To: kaehurowing

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.


80 posted on 01/08/2020 3:40:23 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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