Juno News - January 13, 2020Iran finally admits missile blame but many questions remain
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The downing of the Boeing 737-800 flight Ps752 by the armed forces of Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was stunning. The Iranian regime initially denied they had any involvement, daring the U.S. and Canada to prove it. That changed on Saturday, when the regime admitted the missile fired from an SA-15 missile battery was fired by mistake, and was unintentional.
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the downing of the ukraine air 737-800 flight ps752 by the armed forces of iran killing all
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176 people aboard was stunning for three days the iranian regime denied they had any involvement
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daring the u.s and canada to prove it that changed on saturday when the regime admitted
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the missile fired from an sa-15 missile battery was fired by mistake they said and was quote
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unintentional unquote prime minister justin trudeau held a press conference in which he announced that
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he held a telephone call with president hussein rohani in which he demanded a thorough investigation
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he also expressed that he was quote frustrated and outraged unquote this was interesting in as
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much as canada has not had diplomatic relations with iran for a number of years one wonders how
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that call might have been arranged but even though iran has taken responsibility and admitted it was
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their missile that took down the airliner the statements coming out of iran don't make a lot
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sense indeed the head of the iranian revolutionary guards aerospace division admitted he knew it was
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a missile the day of the event quote that might night we had the readiness for all-out war unquote
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and that they had set up extra air defenses all around tehran because they were worried about
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american reprisals after their missile attacks on two bases inside iraq that housed american troops
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but to say that the airliner was mistaken for a cruise missile justifies credulity in the first
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place tehran airport was in normal flight operations why that was when the country was on war footing as a
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whole other question the pilot of ps752 would have filed a flight plan which outlines where they are going
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the route they're going to take what time they're leaving and of course the tower had to give them
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permission to taxi out and to take off airliners also squawked their identification on transponders
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which would have told anybody looking at radar it was a civilian airliner not a cruise missile
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finally the plane was gaining altitude and heading away from tehran
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not towards it as it would have had to be confused with the cruise missile
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it wasn't threatening tehran at all it's hard to believe this was a mistake and unintended
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even in taking the blame the iranian regime tried to offload some of the responsibility
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on american quote adventurism unquote in the region
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and then they were supported by the useful idiots in the media trudeau's press conference
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who kept asking and tried to get him the prime minister to blame trump for the actions of iran
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u.s president donald trump drew a red line for the mulls
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telling them there would be severe consequences if an american was killed
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on december 27th they executed a rocket attack at the k-1 air base in iraq an american contractor
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was killed and several servicemen were wounded they crossed the line then units of iranian controlled
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hezbollah attacked the american embassy in baghdad fortunately the security defense is held this time
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general soleimany was in baghdad it had been known that he was the architect of iranian attacks
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in a number of countries and as a result the americans were watching him
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they had intel that according to trump he planned imminent attacks on four embassies
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they made the decision to take him out and they did so with a well-planned surgical strike
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when you have the opportunity to take out an enemy commander on the battlefield
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trump made the right call and the military executed it with precision
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as a side note it also sends a message to the mullahs
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that no one is beyond the reach of the united states
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if i were the prime minister i might be inclined not to believe the mullahs
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or take them at face value after all they're always lying their faces off
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it also underlines why the prime minister must name the revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization
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as the u.s has done and why iran must never be allowed to get a nuclear weapon
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finally it also seems that the stage managed crowds depicted as mourners for
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soleimany's funeral are now marching in the streets of tehran demanding the ouster of
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ayatollah haimeni they need to be encouraged and helped out as much as possible