I had updated my previous article about the accidental shooting down of that Ukrainian passenger jet flying out of Tehran some 3 days ago, showing how the Iranians had to finally admit that they were 100% responsible for this tragedy..... But I figured I would put up a separate article to further cover this tragedy in some detail here...First, I do want to present the following report that comes from the Moon of Alabama website, at www.moonofalabama.org, that is entitled: "Iranian Armed Forces Say They Inadvertently Shot Down The Ukrainian Plane" and covers some important facts about this real tragedy... I have that article here and more of my own thoughts, comments, and further details, to follow:January 11, 2020
Iranian Armed Forces Say They Inadvertently Shot Down The Ukrainian Plane
The Iranian Armed Forces General Staff just admitted (in Farsi) that its air defenses inadvertently shot down the Ukrainian flight PS 752 shortly after it took off on January 8 in Tehran (machine translation, slightly edited for readability):
In the hours after the missile strikes, US terrorist forces' warplanes around the country increased, and some reports of air strikes targeting strategic centers in the country were reported to numerous defense units and targets on some radar plates. It has caused more sensitivity in air defense units.
In such critical conditions, the Ukrainian Airlines departs from Imam Khomeini Airport and, while in rotation, was in close proximity to a sensitive military center of the IRGC and in a height and shape of a hostile aircraft. In these circumstances, the plane was accidentally hit by a human error, which unfortunately results in the martyrdom of dear compatriots and the death of a number of foreign nationals.
The Armed Forces General Staff sends condolences to the families of missing persons of other countries and apologizes for the human error, ensures that this will not happen again by carrying out major reforms in operational processes at armed forces level to make such errors impossible and immediately report it to the Armed Forces Judicial Organization to deal with the errors committed legally.
The Pentagon had claimed that Iran shot down the airliner but the evidence it presented was flimsy and not sufficient as the U.S. tends to spread disinformation about Iran.It is welcome that the Iranian forces come clean about the incident.That is not a given in such cases.After the USS Vincennes in 1989 had shot down Iran Air Flight 655 and killed 290 people, including many children, the U.S. government denied any culpability. George H. W. Bush, the vice president of the United States at the time, commented: "I will never apologize for the United States – I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy." Despite its "error" the crew was given medals and the captain was even awarded a Legion of Merit "for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as commanding officer ...".We can be assured that the responsible Iranian officer will receive no such a reward.Let us also not forget that the root cause of the accident was an assassination campaign which the U.S. launched against foreign military commanders of a country with which it is not at war:
On the day U.S. forces killed Soleimani, they launched another secret operation targeting a senior Iranian official in YemenThe strike targeting Abdul Reza Shahlai, a financier and key commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force who has been active in Yemen, did not result in his death, according to four U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The U.S. executed a long planned campaign against several Iranian officers in third countries without any reasonable justification:
“There is no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks being plotted by Qasem Soleimani,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Friday. “We don’t know precisely when and we don’t know precisely where, but it was real.” Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper have likewise supported the case for an imminent plot.“Did it exactly say who, what, when, where? No,” Milley told reporters this week. “But he was planning, coordinating and synchronizing significant combat operations against U.S. military forces in the region, and it was imminent.”
Can there be any "imminent threat" when one does not know the "who, what, when, where" of the threat? Why would killing a high officer prevent the execution of such a threat? The excuse is obviously bullshit.It were the U.S. assassination of the Iraqi and Iranian national heroes Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes and Major General Qassem Suleimani that led to the high alarm and nervousness which, in the end, killed 176 passengers and crew on board of flight PS 752.Their death is the tragic outcome of unreasonable U.S. aggression.Posted by b on January 11, 2020 at 4:21 UTCOK, I hope that readers caught the part in this Moon of Alabama article about how the USS naval vessel, the USS Vincennes did indeed shoot down Iranian flight 655 back on July 3rd, 1988 in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran, killing all 290 passengers on board that aircraft... And I do remember how the criminal US government at that time under the heinous former CIA man, George Herbert Walker Bush, absolutely did NOT even bother to apologize to Iran for the US's tragic and yet "inadvertent" mistake...Now we fast forward to 2020, and we find the Jew spew media going hog wild claiming that Iran did this almost like a cold act of murder and even claiming that this shows that Iran is "evil".... How quickly some 32 years after the US did the same type of accident and nobody seems to even remember that incident, and yet you do not see the same Jew spew media even talking about that tragedy in 1988!And to claim that this tragedy shows that there is suddenly an "imminent threat" from Iran shows how badly the US criminal government is now reaching into their bag of dirty tricks to gain support for an attack on Iran... And yet again, we found no such rhetoric after the US killed 290 people on board Iranian flight 655 back in 1988, do we?Yes, that shoot down was indeed a tragic mistake, but as I said in my previous article about this accident, these do happen in times of war or when nations are on the precipice of war....And IMHO, I am actually glad that Iran has come clean on this tragedy and accepted their responsibility, even though clearly accidental... You will never ever find the real criminals that are seeking that nation's destruction ever doing the same if they accidentally blew an Iranian passenger jet out of the sky!More to comeNTS