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Government preparations, mounting criticism and the long, hot summer + this day in history w/the Rosenberg's execution and our song of the day by Arcade Fire on your Morning Monarchy for June 19, 2017.

A Russian Su-30 fighter jet takes off on a combat mission with a Su-30 bomber in the foreground, at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. (Photo: Vladimir Isachenkov/AP)

In this April 6, 2017 photo in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israeli military medics assist wounded Syrians. They are the latest group of Syrian fighters receiving free medical care through an Israeli military program operating since 2013. (AP/Dusan Vranic)

A US fighter jet shot down a Syrian jet that belongs to the Bashar al-Assad regime after it bombed an area occupied by US-backed forces. [...]

A missile is fired from city of Kermanshah in western Iran targeting ISIS in Syria, June 19, 2017. (Morteza Fakhrinejad/IRIB)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says its ballistic missile strike targeting ISIS in Syria was not only a response to deadly attacks in Tehran, but a powerful message to archrival Saudi Arabia and the United States, one that could add to already soaring regional tensions.

Russia has announced it has suspended an agreement to share the whereabouts of Russian aircraft over Syria.
The sky incident prevention interactions agreement otherwise known as the ‘flight safety memorandum’ was previously cancelled by Russia after the illegal US attack on a Syrian airbase on the 6th of April 2017.
It was quietly reinstated shortly thereafter.
Russia is clearly furious at America for shooting down a Syrian aircraft which has impeded the Syrian fight against ISIS and other terrorist groups.

21st Century Wire says…
Yesterday a US F/A-18E Super Hornet is reported to have shot down a Syrian Army SU-22 jet near the village of Rasafah, south of Raqqa. Washington claims it was an act of ‘collective self-defense’ because the Syrian jet had dropped bombs “near US-backed forces.” Syrian officials in Damascus deny the US claims, stating that their plane was downed while conducting a strike on an ISIS position. 

The US has now confirmed that it was responsible for shooting down a Syrian SU-22 and the US led Coalition has now released the following statement explaining its move

By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | June 18, 2017 The move by the US military to shift for the first time the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) into Syrian territory from Jordan signifies that the Pentagon has created a new fact on the ground. According to the CNN, the deployment will be […]

“The spilling of any pure blood will not go unanswered,” Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say.

(MEE) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it launched a series of missiles into Syria on Sunday in revenge for deadly attacks on its capital that were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
The missiles were fired from western Iran across the border into Deir Ezzor province in northeastern Syria, targeting what the Guard called “terror bases”.