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Abdul-Mahdi puts himself in an "embarrassing situation" regarding Iranian missiles: a legal article that might expose him to "execution"!

 
Policy  ,   01/20/2020 17:08  

 

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Baghdad - Iraq today:

 

The government statement issued by the resigned Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, regarding the Iranian attack on two American bases and surrounding residential areas in the provinces of Anbar and Erbil, garnered widespread anger and ridicule on social media.

Abdul-Mahdi used to issue a statement in every incident committed by the Iranian or American side in Iraq, in which he says that he was aware of the incident, and at the time that politicians and activists considered that he had become a “postman”, others circulated a legal article that might subject Abdul-Mahdi to “execution” .

Abdul Mahdi's phone is crowded with calls

Abdul-Mahdi published a statement commenting on the targeting of two American bases in Anbar and Erbil with Iranian missiles, saying: “Shortly after midnight on 8/1/2020, we received an official oral message from the Islamic Republic of Iran that the Iranian response to the assassination of the martyr Qassem Soleimani had It started or will start shortly, and the strike will be limited to the locations of the US military in Iraq without specifying its location.

He added, "At the exact same time, the American side contacted us and the rockets were falling on the wing of the American forces at Ein al-Assad bases in Anbar and Harir in Arbil and in other locations." He indicated that "of course we had alerted as soon as we received the news of the attack the Iraqi military leaders to take the necessary precautions ”

And Abdul-Mahdi confirmed that "he continued to follow developments since the start of the attack and until this hour and is making the necessary internal and external contacts in an attempt to contain the situation and not enter into open war, Iraq and the region will be one of its first victims." .

"Postman" and "Exchange " , 
and former deputy Sarwa Abdel-Wahid said, "When the Americans hit the crowd sites too, he told me," she said, adding: "I want to understand the government if we want a postman."

While another tweeter commented, asking a question to Abdul-Mahdi saying: "I mean, you are going to become a switch, take a call from this and report this", surprising at the invitation of Abdul-Mahdi to respect the state and sovereignty with these data.

“Silence is better”

Other singers were surprised at the publication of a statement in this format, because it contained statements that observers see "do not suggest the existence of a state", as well as an implicit admission by Abdel-Mahdi that he agreed to bomb the lands of his country, who is the commander-in-chief of his armed forces.

Is Abdel-Mahdi subject to execution?

Other singers and commentators have commented on Abdel-Mahdi's memoirs of his article 159 of the constitution, which states, "Whoever seeks or communicates with a foreign country or with one of those who work in its interest to assist it in its war operations against Iraq ... shall be punished by death."

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How Soleimani’s Killing Could Make a Stronger Iraq

 

As Iraq signals its willingness to evict American forces in the wake of the U.S. strike, it’s time to
be disciplined and focus on shared interests.

 

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People protest the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Major Gen. Qassem Soleimani outside
the U.S. Consulate on Sunday in Istanbul. | Chris McGrath/Getty Images

 

By MICHAEL KNIGHTS

 

01/05/2020 11:07 AM 

 

Michael Knights is a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He has
worked on Iraq since the 1990s and made multiple trips to Iraq each year since 2003,
embedding with Iraqi security forces and interviewing local and national leaders.

 

The targeted killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraq’s most senior militiamen, Abu
Mahdi al-Muhandis, justified by their orchestration of the deaths of hundreds of Americans, has
led to a widespread
fear of an imminent war with Iran that could cause untold loss of life and further destabilize an
already devastated region.

How Iran might respond is impossible to know (much less how the U.S. would react in turn),
but I see the potential for a success in Iraq—if the U.S.-led coalition and the Iraqi government
can focus on their shared interests and continue to purge Iran’s malign influence.

As someone who has worked in Iraq with every U.S. administration since 2003, I felt a deep
sense of satisfaction and relief when Soleimani and Muhandis were killed, reflecting my own
odyssey in Iraq, the friends and colleagues lost there to militia attacks, and the growing impunity
of militia kingpins. I know that this feeling was shared across the U.S. government policymaking,
military and intelligence communities dealing with Iraq. Most of us have a long history with
Iraq and, indirectly, with the likes of Soleimani and Muhandis. Indeed, Soleimani’s outsize
influence in the region had been so great for so long, that we convened a roundtable last spring
that imagined what might happen if he were no longer in power.

The last two years witnessed Soleimani and Muhandis’ shared victory in Iraq. Soleimani picked
the prime minister and made sure he did not get in the way while Muhandis ran anything that
mattered in the country. It felt good to break their stride, especially coming hot on the heels of
popular protests in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon that indicated they may have overreached.

Now the U.S. needs to bank the win and adopt more-measured policies that show Washington’s
ability to pause, reflect on shared interests with Iraq and the coalition, and let the dust settle.
And while careful deliberation and playing well with others are not the hallmarks of this
administration, there are some signs for optimism.

The deaths of Soleimani and Muhandis arguably brings about the end of the post-2014 era of
Iraqi-invited strategic and military partnership. On Sunday, Iraq’s Parliament and prime minister
each agreed in principle that the presence of U.S. combat forces should be ended, albeit
without a clear process or timeline.

There are many procedural hurdles that Iraqi politicians have used to hold off such actions in
the past, and Sunday’s parliamentary session was notable for the absence of all Kurdish MPs
and most Sunnis. Other supporters of ongoing security cooperation with the U.S.-led coalition
include Iraqi moderates, military professionals, technocrats, and (quietly) even a good
proportion of Shiites.

Although shocked by recent U.S. actions, many Iraqis still want a new era of strategic cooperation with the U.S. and the other 80 nations of the global coalition to defeat the Islamic State, nations that have collectively adopted an “in with the U.S., out with the U.S.” posture, meaning that they would not continue their in-country support without the U.S. alongside them.

Everyone remembers what happened after the sudden, complete removal of foreign forces in 2011 and few outside the Iran-backed militias are keen to repeat the episode, which opened the floodgates for a revival of the Islamic State and the near-collapse of Iraq as a state. They also don’t want Iran to have unfettered influence in Iraq.

A new coalition-Iraq framework

Sunday’s parliamentary action in Iraq will be the beginning of a process in which both the U.S.-led coalition and Iraq need to revisit the terms of their cooperation because both parties have deep-seated grievances.

Iraq is rightly alarmed that the U.S. has taken military actions inside Iraq, operations that targeted Iraqi citizens and were not authorized by the Iraqi state.

But there is plenty to be unhappy about on the other side as well. The U.S. and many key partners such as Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Germany have grave concerns that Iraq’s government has no qualms about Iranian violations of Iraqi sovereignty, that militias are grossly undermining security sector reforms and killing unarmed civilians, and that there is effectively no empowered government since Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi resigned amid popular protests in October.

This should be the starting point of a conversation on creating a new era of U.S.-Iraqi strategic and military partnership, one founded on a common understanding. Whether Iraq falls to the Islamic State or to militia warlords and U.S.-Iran proxy warfare, the result will be the same: refugees, chaos, war.

The U.S. and its coalition partners are in Iraq to defeat the Islamic State, but they share another objective with many Iraqis that might provide an excellent basis for future cooperation: the survival of a sovereign, stable and democratic Iraq.

The presence of international troops is underwritten by an exchange of letters made in June 2014. If Iraq goes all the way in requesting the departure of U.S. forces, there will be a period of up to a year to make the withdrawal. In that interregnum, a new letter might be written, by which time Iraq may have held early elections and elected a new prime minister with a strong mandate to set new terms of cooperation.

The new framework should be drafted by a contact group of Iraqis and coalition members. At one remove, working through trusted intermediaries, the Shiite religious establishment of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and the followers of populist-nationalist Muqtada al-Sadr should also guide the new framework.

Rebuilding a sovereign, stable and democratic Iraq

Iraq’s new security framework with the coalition should not be limited to fighting terrorists. It should focus on ensuring Iraq is sovereign, stable and democratic—all conditions that are degrading rapidly in the country. If and when U.S. and Iraqi officials sit down to negotiate a new partnership, the American side has a number of things to offer that can promote these three pillars of a stronger Iraq.

SOVEREIGN.

Coalition countries must—and I believe will—give greater respect to Iraqi autonomy, which means accepting greater constraints on coalition forces. But the Iraqi government must first demonstrate greater evenhandedness in its treatment of foreign countries.

To give just three examples: Iraq condemned the U.S. strikes on Kataib Hezbollah on December 29, but not Kataib Hezbollah’s December 27 killing of a U.S. contractor that triggered the retaliation.

Iraq’s militia-dominated security forces strongly defended the Iranian Embassy from unarmed protesters for months yet allowed Iran-backed militias to breach the International Zone of Baghdad in minutes to blockade the U.S. Embassy.

Likewise, Soleimani entered Iraq illegally whenever and however he wished, while coalition officials observe immigration procedures.

If the U.S.-led coalition sees Iraq being evenhanded, it will readily accept stricter controls.

STABLE.

Iraq’s security is only as good as its security forces, without which the Islamic State and militias would run rampant, driving both refugees and investors to flee the country. The coalition has a powerful bargaining chip that it can use to induce the Iraqis to stand up to Iran’s crippling sway over its internal affairs.

Coalition forces donate well over $1.5 billion in security cooperation to Iraq each year and put more than 5,000 of their troops in harm’s way, but they can only justify this generosity if they believe Iraq’s security forces are developing as strong institutions.

Today, they are not. Iran-backed militias are engineering the sacking of Iraq’s best generals, like Counter-Terrorism Command head Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi and Baghdad Operations Command head Jalil al-Rubai. This has to be reversed.

Militias like Kataib Hezbollah, the U.S.-designated terrorist organization bombed by the U.S. on December 29, now run security and baggage-handling services at Baghdad International Airport. They control the diplomatic and government district. This is unacceptable to all Iraq’s international partners and to many Iraqis also.

The coalition also needs to listen to the changing nature of Iraqi needs. Providing mainly military assistance was the right call in 2014, with the Islamic State at Baghdad’s gates. To avoid a future economic collapse under the weight of nearly a million new job-seekers each year, Iraq needs economic partnership, investment and private sector jobs. Representing 12 of the G-20 nations, the coalition is a ready-made “friends of Iraq” platform with unrivaled economic strength.

DEMOCRATIC.

The 2018 national elections in Iraq were viewed domestically and internationally as the least free and fair to be held since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003.

With a resigned prime minister and protesters calling for new elections, all 81 partners of the international coalition should support free and fair early elections before the scheduled 2022 polls, an outcome the United Nations has also called for. The coalition represents most of the world’s economic and diplomatic giants, and when they speak with one voice, they can confer tremendous legitimacy on a new political process, or, alternatively, can disengage from a nondemocratic Iraq.

Until Iraq has a relegitimized government, it will be a playground for militias determined to keep the chaos going and run the state in the power vacuum.

Removal of coalition forces is Iraq’s choice, but that choice has portentous implications and may be passed on to a relegitimized new government. If foreign forces are allowed to stay in Iraq, and if they choose to do so, there should be a new framework to govern the new post-Islamic State stage of stabilizing Iraq.

Most Iraqi factions and, judging by the protests, most Iraqi people want real sovereignty and international partnership, real stability provided by professional security forces—not militias. They want real, not fake, democracy that results in new free and fair elections that give the younger generation a chance to get Iraq, one of the Middle East’s most powerful nations, back on track.

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Evidence is building that Iran shot down that Ukrainian airliner.

 

Disturbing fact: 138 of the 176 victims were Canadian.

 

 

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The wreckage had hardly stopped bouncing when Iran blamed mechanical failure. This excuse was made without benefit of investigation or even access to the ‘black boxes’ which Iran now refuses to turn over.

...

 

More and more, though, the crash of PS752 is looking like a shootdown.

For instance, these are the tracks for the a ircraft from takeoff until it disappeared from radar

 

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There was no MAYDAY call from the aircraft. Everything was routine until the plane disappeared from radar and reappeared on the ground. And (h/t to Brandon’s excellent article) there is more evidence that says this was no accident.

 

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Facts:
- If there was an engine fire the plane would’ve slowed down, and the pilots would’ve made their way back to the airport. It kept climbing.
- Fire suppression systems would’ve prevented the plane from turning into a ball of fire.
- Shrapnel damage on wings & fuselage.

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Now, many aviation experts are weighing in and calling the PS752 crash a ‘shootdown event.’ 

 

 

Much more at the link:

 

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/01/08/761990/

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4 hours ago, Kenny_Logins said:

Evidence is building that Iran shot down that Ukrainian airliner.

 

 

Or maybe it's even something more nefarious than that....  It's hard to know at this point, but many people are saying this whole thing is not even a plane crash since too many things don't add up..

 

 

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Or maybe it's even something more nefarious than that....  It's hard to know at this point, but many people are saying this whole thing is not even a plane crash since too many things don't add up..

 

 

Canada's Muslim population is 2nd  in size only to the French population. 

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Ukraine names Iran plane crash theories, including missile strike

Iranian investigators said the Ukraine International Airline jet was engulfed in fire before it crashed. (IRNA/AFP)

 

REUTERS

January 09, 202006:26

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Iran investigators: Crew members never made a radio call for help

‘Undoubtedly, the priority for Ukraine is to identify the causes of the plane crash’

 

 

KIEV: A top Ukrainian security official on Thursday set out what he said were the four main theories for why a Ukrainian airliner crashed in Iran the previous day killing 176 people, including a possible missile strike and terrorism.

Oleksiy Danylov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, made his statement as an initial report by Iranian investigators said the plane, a Boeing 737-800, had been on fire immediately before it crashed.

Ukraine is looking at various possible causes of the crash, including a possible missile attack, a collision, an engine explosion or terrorism, he wrote in a Facebook post.

The crash happened hours after Iran launched missile attacks on US-led forces in Iraq, leading some to speculate that the plane may have been hit.

But an initial assessment by Western intelligence agencies was that the plane had suffered a technical malfunction and had not been brought down by a missile, five security sources — three Americans, one European and the Canadian — who asked not to be named, said.

Danylov said Ukrainian investigators in Iran wanted to search the crash site for possible debris of a Russian missile after seeing reports about its possible existence on the Internet.

Read the airline’s statement here.

He referred to an unverified image being circulated on Iranian social media purportedly showing the debris of a Russian-made Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile of the kind used by the Iranian military.

“Our (investigative) commission is talking to the Iranian authorities about visiting the crash site and is determined to search for fragments of a Russian Tor air defense missile about which there was information on the Internet,” Danylov separately told Ukrainian news site Censor.net.

He said Ukraine would draw on expertise learnt from carrying out its own investigation into the 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 over eastern Ukraine, an incident that killed all 298 people on board.

Володимир Зеленський✔@ZelenskyyUa

Terrible news from the Middle East. This morning, after departing from Tehran International Airport, a UIA passenger plane crashed near the airport. According to preliminary reports, all 167 passengers and crew of 9 members died. Sincere condolences to family and friends.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1610416/world

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Russian missile" .. Ukrainian investigators want to search the wreckage of the plane in Iran

176 people on board were killed

 

January 09, 2020

176 people on board were killed

 

The Secretary-General of the Ukrainian Security Council said that there is information on the Internet indicating that the remains of a Russian missile were found near the site of the Ukrainian plane crash in Tehran, Reuters quoted him.

The Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted a security official as saying that Ukrainian investigators were searching for the remains of the supposed Russian missile at the crash site that crashed shortly after takeoff from Khomeini airport in Tehran.

The Secretary-General of the Ukrainian Security Council indicated that his country is examining all the hypotheses that caused the crash, including an engine failure, a terrorist bombing inside it, or a missile.

https://www.alhurra.com/a/مشتعلة-في-الهواء-فيديو-للحظة-سقوط-الطائرة-الأوكرانية/528438.

"Burning in the air" .. Video of the moment the Ukrainian plane crashed in Iran

He said that investigators participated in the investigations of the crash of the Malaysian MH17 plane with a Russian missile in 2014 over Ukraine, participating in the investigations.

The media released video footage of the plane burning in the air before it crashed and crashed, with 176 passengers on board all killed.

Iran has announced that it will not hand over the black boxes of the stricken plane to the United States, which raised doubts about what Tehran is trying to hide.

The Iranian Civil Aviation Organization announced that the Boeing 737 was facing a "problem."

"The plane disappeared from radar screens when it reached an altitude of 8,000 feet (about 2,400 meters)," said the organization, which published the results of its initial investigation on its website on Wednesday night.

The pilot did not send any message about abnormal conditions. "

She added, "According to eyewitnesses (...) a fire was seen on the plane, which increased in intensity."

The organization pointed out that "the plane, which was initially heading west to exit the airport (airspace), turned to the right after it encountered a problem and was heading to return to the airport at the time of the accident," which claimed the lives of all its passengers.

The organization confirmed that it listened to the statements of witnesses on the ground and others who were on board a plane flying over the Ukrainian plane when the accident occurred.

https://www.alhurra.com/a/صاروخ-روسي-المحققون-الأوكرانيون-يريدون-البحث-في-حطام-الطائرة/528616.html

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The commander of the Iranian air force reveals important information about the bombing of bases in Iraq
  
International: The Euphrates News. The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Air Force said today, Thursday, that Tehran was not seeking to kill the American forces at Ein Al-Assad base, and its aim was to strike a military equipment.

Ali Haji Zadeh, the commander of the air force, said, "The missile attack on Ain al-Assad base, as it is the most important American base in Iraq, is the beginning of major operations and a movement that will continue in the future."
He added that "nothing can compensate for the assassination of the Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani until the American President Donald Trump himself was killed."
He stressed , "in the process of targeting the US base we expect to receive a US response , and we were ready for a comprehensive war , " adding that "all of our units and our units were ready to confront any American response
and pointed out that" Taji bases named al - Assad and al - Qaeda in Jordan and Ali Al Salem in Kuwait participated In the assassination of General Soleimani, we did not target the Taji base because it was near Baghdad and the city of Al-Kadhimiya, and for fear that it would cause concern for the Iraqi people.
"We could have targeted the headquarters of the American forces, but we avoided that because our goal was to target the command room, we targeted the command center at Ain al-Assad base, and the picture shows the extent of its destruction."
He said, "The American forces, through nine planes, transported the wounded to the Zionist entity. We have not heard any targeting of American bases without response since the Second World War."

Haji Zadeh expressed his belief that the assassination of Soleimani is one of the biggest historical and strategic mistakes in the US, noting that "we were expecting an American response and we were ready for a comprehensive confrontation, so that our strikes will be stronger and within a wider geographical area, but American restraint prevented the war."
Haji Zadeh said, "The Iranian air force launched 13 missiles towards American bases in Iraq, and we were ready to launch hundreds of other missiles."
He added: "We were expecting a US response that would make the confrontation last for 3 days to a week."
He continued, "The price of Soleimani's blood is not taken by hitting American bases, shooting down reconnaissance planes, or even killing Trump. The price of Soleimani's blood is to get American forces out of the region."
Haji Zadeh stressed that "the resistance forces will seek to expel the American forces from the region," calling on "the countries of the region to follow the path of the Iraqi parliament, otherwise the resistance forces will remove the Americans by force."

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Iran retracts declaration of killing Americans: the goal is to destroy its military machine

Last update: Thursday 14 Jumada I 1441 AH - 09 January 2020 KSA 16:04 - GMT 13:04
Publication date: Thursday 14 Jumada I 1441 AH - 09 January 2020 KSA 15:38 - GMT 12:38

Source: Al-Arabiya.net

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The commander of the underground force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Amir Ali Haji Zada

 

On Thursday, Iran backed away from the announcement of the killing of dozens of Americans, saying the goal was to destroy its military machine.

Iranian media quoted Amir Ali Haji Zada, commander of the Revolutionary Guards' underground force, as saying that Tehran's missile strikes on American targets in Iraq were not aimed at killing American soldiers, but rather harming the American "military machine", adding that it was the beginning of a series of attacks across the region.

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On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said that Iran "appears to be softening its stance" after Iranian missile strikes on two bases where US soldiers are stationed in Iraq, and that no American or Iraqi casualties have been reported .

"All of our soldiers are safe and little harm has been done to our military bases. Our great American forces are ready for everything," Trump said in a speech at the White House.

"It appears that Iran is softening its stance, which is good for all concerned and the world. We have not lost any American or Iraqi lives," he added.

It is noteworthy that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced, on Wednesday, that it had carried out a missile attack on Ain al-Assad base in Anbar province in western Iraq, and another base in Erbil, and the two included American forces.

https://www.alarabiya.net/ar/iran/2020/01/09/ايران-تتراجع-عن-اعلان-مقتل-الأميركيين-الهدف-تدمير-آلتها-العسكرية.html

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Daily Mail: Are these the remains of a missile within the wreckage of the Ukrainian plane?

Last update: Thursday 14 Jumada I 1441 AH - 09 January 2020 KSA 10:27 - GMT 07:27
Publication date: Thursday 14 Jumada I 1441 AH - 09 January 2020 KSA 08:28 - GMT 05:28

Source: Washington - Bandar Al-Doshi
d122ecb1-f576-46f5-9060-7975620f3957.jpgA picture of what resembles the missile remains in the wreckage (quoting the Daily Mail).

Iranian activists on Twitter posted photos of the remains of a missile, which they claimed were taken near the site of a Ukrainian passenger plane crash that crashed in Iran on Wednesday, killing 176 people on board, according to Britain's Daily Mail.

The photos posted on social media, taken near the crash site of the Ukrainian plane a few minutes after take-off, show a mysterious piece of "what is believed to be a missile" wreck.

 
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A Boeing 737 plane crashed in farmland outside Parand, a city in the vicinity of the capital, Tehran, after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport bound for Kiev yesterday morning.

Iran claimed that the crash was likely due to "technical difficulties", and said the pilot lost control after the engine caught fire.

Canadian security sources said, Wednesday, that a Boeing 737 plane malfunction was the most likely explanation for the crash, citing intelligence information from Western countries.

The crash site (quoting the Daily Mail)The crash site (quoting the Daily Mail)

However, the authorities in Tehran refuse to say whether to hand the black boxes on board to external investigators.

The photos, posted on Twitter by Iranian accounts, show a green projectile what appears to be a black cone missile, creating odds and doubts about the cause of the crash.

These photos, which have not been verified, according to the newspaper, are said to show part of a missile that landed in front of the home of a resident of Parand, about 37 miles from Tehran.

Witnesses also said on Twitter that they heard loud explosions coming from a nearby military base before they knew the plane had crashed.

Ashkan Monfred's tweet (from the Daily Mail)Ashkan Monfred's tweet (from the Daily Mail)

The crash site is less than two miles from the "Parandak" base, the headquarters of the Iranian army's "Takavar" division.

Ashkan Monfred wrote on Twitter: "This is a piece that was found on the site of the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane that fell in front of a resident's house. Does the plane have anything like this? Isn't this a missile remnant?"

Other witnesses said that they were in the area at the time of the crash, and heard that al-Qaeda was on alert at the time, and they heard "two powerful explosions".

One of them wrote on Twitter: "I am from Parand and two to three minutes before the crash, I heard two very powerful sounds coming from Parandak base."

 
 
 
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Video footage appears to show that the plane was already burning before it crashed, while photos at the crash site showed the fuselage filled with mysterious holes.

The Ukrainian airline said that the plane is less than 4 years old, and it was examined only two days ago, and that the pilot is "one of the best crews" in the company.

But the initial assessment by Western intelligence agencies leads to the fact that the Ukrainian plane was not shot down by a missile, according to a Canadian security source.

The crash site is less than two miles from Parandak Base, headquarters of the Iranian Army's Takavar Squad (quoting the Daily Mail)The crash site is less than two miles from Parandak Base, headquarters of the Iranian Army's Takavar Squad (quoting the Daily Mail)
From the Ukrainian plane crash siteFrom the Ukrainian plane crash site

The source, who asked not to be identified, said that the agencies believed that the Boeing 737 had suffered a technical failure.

3 British and 63 Canadians were among 168 passengers and nine crew members who died on board.

The Ukrainian international plane took off from Tehran airport at 6:10 am and disappeared from the radars minutes later.

The plane fell hours after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at two US bases in Iraq. While the timing of the disaster prompted some aviation experts to ask whether it had been shot down by a missile, Iranian officials opposed any such weighting and blamed a mechanical problem.

 

A new video circulated on social media showed the bodies of victims of the Ukrainian plane that fell today, Wednesday, in ...
New video shows the bodies of the Ukrainian plane victims New video shows the bodies of the victims of the Ukrainian plane, Social Media

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky cut off a visit to Amman to return to Kiev, and said that a team of Ukrainian experts would go to Tehran to help investigate the incident.

Major international airlines have diverted flights that cross the Middle East to avoid danger amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, and the US Federal Aviation Administration has banned US flights from airspace in the Persian Gulf, warning of a "possible miscalculation".

The Ukrainian Airlines President, Levin Dane, said that the plane "was one of the best that we have, with an amazing and reliable crew."

The plane underwent routine maintenance on Monday, according to the airline. As for the pilots, he said: "Looking at the experience of the crew, the probability of error is very small. We do not think of such a hypothesis."

https://www.alarabiya.net/ar/iran/2020/01/09/ديلي-ميل-هل-هذه-بقايا-صاروخ-ضمن-حطام-الطائرة-الأوكرانية؟.html

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Iran's first official response to Trump's request for "cooperation"

2020-01-09 | 08:01
Iran's first official response to Trump's request for "cooperation"
 
 
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Iran formally responded to what US President Donald Trump requested in his speech, on Wednesday, regarding their cooperation.

Tehran's ambassador to the United Nations, Majeed Takht Rawanji , said , according to "Reuters", that his country believes that what was described as the invitation of US President Donald Trump to cooperate "is incredible" in light of Washington imposing sanctions on Tehran .
 
In a press statement, Rwangi added that Washington "started a new series of escalation and hostility towards Iran by killing Qasim Soleimani."

Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that Washington will impose more sanctions on Tehran , in response to an Iranian missile attack on military bases that include US forces in Iraq .

Trump refrained, in a speech on Wednesday at the White House, from directing any direct threat to military action against Iran .

He urged world powers, including Russia, China and allied countries of America (United Kingdom, Germany and France) to abandon the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and work on a new agreement. He continued, "We should all work together towards concluding an agreement with Iran It makes the world safer and more peaceful. "
 
Donald Trump added: "The destruction of ISIS, which is a natural enemy of Iran, is in its interest, and we must work together on this and other common matters."
Yesterday morning, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced the targeting of two American military bases in Iraq , in response to the assassination of the commander of the Quds Force, which the United States of America announced that he had killed in a raid at Baghdad Airport a few days ago.
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The strategic expert on armed groups affairs, Hisham Al-Hashimi, confirmed that resigned Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi played the role of "postman" in US and Iranian strikes on targets on Iraqi soil.

Hashemi said in an interview with "Al-Ikhbaria", that "the Iranian bombing offended the reputation of its missile system, which appears as a group of scrap that did not hit its targets," expressing his surprise at the "role of the postman, who was taken by the resigned Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi."

He added: "Abdul-Mahdi was told once by the Americans and once by the Iranians about these American and Iranian strikes," noting that they "gave a chance to Adel Abdul-Mahdi to save our sons."

And that "the Iranian strike does not have any victims from the Americans or the Iraqis," noting that it is "a deal arranged by Iraq and Qatar in order not to embarrass Iran in front of its angry audience."

Gabriel Soma, a member of the advisory board of US President Donald Trump, said that Washington would impose sanctions on Baghdad if it insisted on the exit of American forces from Iraq, indicating that a large part of the people's representatives did not vote on this decision.

He said in an interview with "Al-Akhbaria", that the American forces came to Iraq upon his request after the entry of ISIS to a number of its regions and the vote on the exit of these forces did not come from all the representatives of the people and in America we see constitutionally that the Iraqi government is resigned and its request is illegal, according to the rules of procedure of the Council Iraqi ministers.

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Qatari leader, Qatari al-Ubaidi, confirmed today, Thursday, that the Iranian strike against the Ain al-Assad military base in Anbar did not kill a single bird.

Al-Ubaidi said in a statement to an Arab newspaper that was followed by "Al-Akhbaria", that "the missile strike by Iran against the (Ain al-Assad) military base did not lead to the death of one bird."

He added, "The American forces are in the (Al-Halbah) area of (Ain al-Assad) base, and they took out their forces about two hours before the strike, and then returned to the base in the morning."

Al-Ubaidi believes that "the strike was agreed upon between the American and Iranian sides, and it was carried out as a matter of raising the threshold on the killing of the Iranian (Quds Force) commander (Qassem) Soleimani at the hands of the American forces. Americans or Iraqis in al-Qaeda. "

And Al-Ubaidi added that "the base (Al-Assad) is very large and some rockets have fallen on some of the stands that extend for about 5 km, and some of them fell about 40 km away from the base."

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Iran: End of revenge on America "our operations were equivalent"

 

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Iran has openly declared to the United Nations the end of its reprisals against the United States in response to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.

Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations, Majeed Rawanji, said that his country will not take any steps or measures against America if the latter does not do so.

Indicating that the operations and escalation were equal and ended.

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Kurdish lawmaker: The Kurdistan Regional Government does not support the removal of American forces from Iraq

 

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Deputy Kurdistan Alliance Salim Hamza said Thursday that the Kurdistan Regional Government does not support the removal of US forces and the international coalition from Iraq.

Hamzah said in a statement to "Information", that "the United States of America will continue to remain in Iraq as it is working to build the largest military airport in Ain al-Assad base in Anbar province," noting that "the House vote on the decision to remove American forces took place from one side Only not all components support this decision.”

He added that “the Kurdistan region is not in favor of removing the American forces from Erbil or from all of the provinces of Iraq because the Kurdish leaders see a need for the international coalition forces to remain because of the threat of terrorism and ISIS gangs,” noting that “the international coalition suspended its training operations for the Peshmerga forces after the Iraqi government’s decision to stop the work of The coalition inside Iraq.”

The House of Representatives had voted, earlier, on the decision to end the American presence in Iraq after its bombing of the crowd sites and the assassination of the deputy head of the crowd, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the team Qasim Soleimani. 

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It came out in reports, Tuesday, that Biden was instrumental in 2010 of taking out a duly elected PM who supported Iraq and its objectives for a pro Iranian PM . What were these people’s names? I remember Biden being over in Iraq a lot back then! I believe that he and obama had their hands in all that money that the little o sent to Iran. I think obama was a stooge who got rich on the criminal enterprise of the Clintons and Biden. All three need to hung for the deaths of all the American military members who died in the time frame this regime was in the White House ! I know these allegations sound way out there. I believe that the dinar we’re going to RV in that 2010 to 2011 time period if Biden hadn’t instigating the plan we have set through watching it take place. It can be documented that Biden changed history in 2010! When I heard that report it just made  me sick to my stomach! As I was very new in this investment and was listening to guru poo roo! Biden is an enemy of the United States of America! JMHO! 🤬

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The Pentagon and Iraq confirm that Iran shot down the airliner while firing off anti-air missiles they apparently had little training in operating.

 

Link: https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/01/09/breaking-pentagon-iraqi-officials-tell-newsweek-iran-shot-ukraine-flight/

 

"The Tor or Gauntlet system is also known as the SA-15, a vehicle-based artillery system that has an operational range of 500 kilometers and altitude reach of 20,000 feet. The system has its own radar operation, which US forces noticed at the time. CBS News also reports that US satellites picked up two missile launches just prior to seeing the plane burst into flames."

 

 

 

So it's like Keystone Cops but instead of laughter it's 170 dead.

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That Al Asad airbase was attacked saddens me deeply. I was there for 4 years as a civilian contractor from 05 through 09. Interesting base. Ironic that by the time I left the Marines referred to it as camp cupcake because of the non-activity from insurgents.

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So Iran shoots down an airline leaving its own country with a bunch of so called Canadians on it.

And I have not seen a single pic or herd anything of us shooting down those cruse missiles with our defenses.

 

And now there saying everything good here now were happy no more war.

 

The way I see it is that if the demonstrators can put the right government in place we are on the fastest track to Security, stability and a fully seated government.

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Pence: Iran informs its militias of not attacking American targets

 

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WASHINGTON - US Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday that the United States has received information that Iran has asked allied militias not to attack American targets.

"We receive encouraging intelligence that Iran is sending messages to these militias themselves not to move against American targets or American civilians, and we hope that this message will find an echo," Pence said in an interview with CBS News.

Pence issued warnings to the Iranian militias, saying that their fate will be the same as that of the Iraqi Hezbollah, after its bases were targeted after the killing of an another site and the injury of others, indicating that the American people should relax tonight thanks to the strength of President Donald Trump's decision and the courage of the armed forces that showed great professionalism in facing Iranian threats. In the region and in Iraq. ”

In conjunction with Pence's remarks, US Defense Secretary Mark Esber announced on Wednesday that he had assassinated the commander of the Qods Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General Qassem Soleimani, with a US air raid in Baghdad last week, that the United States "recovered a level of deterrence" against Iran.

"With the strikes we carried out against the Hezbollah Brigades in late December and then with our operation against Soleimani, I think we have recovered a level of deterrence with them," Esber told reporters. "But we'll see." The future will tell us. ”

However, the minister did not rule out that Shiite militias, "whether directly led by Iran or not," would launch more attacks against American forces in Iraq.

It seems that Washington is not seeking escalation or war with the United States, especially since the increase in tension is not in anyone’s interest. There are American soldiers stationed in them, none of them hurt, indicating that Washington does not want to use military force against Iran, stressing at the same time that it will impose more sanctions on Iran.

In his address to the nation on Wednesday from the White House, Trump said, "It seems that Iran is softening its stance, which is good for all concerned and the world. We have not lost any American or Iraqi lives. "

The US president defended the killing of the commander of the Quds Force, saying that Soleimani, who is considered a national hero in Iran, was "the largest terrorist in the world ... and he should have been killed long ago."

Trump's comments came hours after the Iranian foreign minister said the missile strikes "concluded" Iran's response to the killing of Qasim Soleimani.

Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter saying that Iran "does not seek escalation or war, but we will defend ourselves against any aggression."

For its part, Washington justified in a letter to the UN Security Council on Wednesday that the killing of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, was in self-defense, and vowed to take new action "if necessary" to protect its soldiers and interests.

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Kraft, also said in the message that Washington "is ready to enter without preconditions in serious negotiations with Iran to prevent international peace and security from being exposed to further danger or to prevent an escalation by the Iranian regime."

And Kraft wrote in the letter that the killing of Soleimani in Baghdad on Friday was justified under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, adding that "the United States is ready to take additional measures in the region if necessary to continue protecting its soldiers and interests."

States are required under Article 51 to "immediately inform" the 15-member Security Council of any measures taken in exercising the right to self-defense. The United States used Article 51 to justify action in Syria against ISIS fighters in 2014.

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