What’s happening in Iran?

[RackMaster]

Opinion | Iran and Trump likely broke international law. And 176 innocents paid the price.

"One way, perhaps posing a moral rather than legal question, is to ask whether the 176 souls who perished on that plane would still be alive had the United States not sought to kill  Qassem  Soleimani."

Not sure if this belongs in the What's Wrong With the Left thread. For fucks sake, do they refuse to hold people accountable?

Didn't you know that" The Orange Man Bad" is now international law?

 

[Brill]

"One way, perhaps posing a moral rather than legal question, is to ask whether the 176 souls who perished on that plane would still be alive had the United States not sought to kill  Qassem  Soleimani."

Not sure if this belongs in the What's Wrong With the Left thread. For fucks sake, do they refuse to hold people accountable?

I know we’re not supposed to talk about parallels, lest ye be a Whatabout’er, but if kinetically targeting a foreign official...who was a leader of a designated terrorist organization and supported by a state sponsor of terrorism...is a war crime, what would one call using airpower to kill the son of a foreign leader...and the CHILDREN inside the house?

Oh, that’s a victory. Got it. The key to Democrat political victory is that voters be uninformed AND misinformed. Learn and then vote.

Death of Saif Al-Arab Gaddafi may backfire for Nato Death of Gaddafi's son may backfire

 

[Kraut783]

...or the invasion of a sovereign country by US military forces to target a residence, force entry, and kill several inside, and taking property and a body out of the country.

Nobody on either side of the aisle cared about that....I guess the ends do justify the means in the political world.

 

[Dame]

Exactly. They would have Mode 3, a flight plan, and been under ATC control. The fact the missile crew didn't understand any of this...wow. The operators should have known it was CivAir, but pushed the button anyway? Clowns.

Unless there was someone on board we don't know about.



Sorry. I'll go back to my papers, pins, and strings on the wall now.

 

[Brill]

Well worth 90 seconds of your time.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1215772941100748803

 

[Totentanz]

Exactly. They would have Mode 3, a flight plan, and been under ATC control. The fact the missile crew didn't understand any of this...wow. The operators should have known it was CivAir, but pushed the button anyway? Clowns.

My guess is that the SA-15 got disconnected from the rest of the air picture and just used their own acq radar to go Death Blossom on anything that maybe-kinda looked like a US aircraft or munition.

 

[Grunt]

CNN and MSNBC are still in disbelief.

They believe it's "fake news."

 

[Box]

I've said it before - this is all just proof that the POTUS is so bad that his racism, misogyny, and religious bigotry reached 40 years into the past and turned Iran into irrational shit heads...
...Iran would be part of the new millennium global peace lovers society if Trump hadn't fucked them over in the 1970s

 

[BlackSmokeRisinG]

Well worth 90 seconds of your time.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1215772941100748803

I'll see your 90 seconds, and raise you 50!!

President Trump's Iran Strike Unprecedented Wrongdoing

 

[Marauder06]

"There is always the possibility of war with Iran. Our two nations have irreconcilable differences as long as the United States exists and the ayatollahs are in charge in Iran. In the coming years, we’re going to keep killing each other on the sidelines. We should probably start accepting we’re in a new Cold War. But the U.S., despite the escalation with the Soleimani assassination, is not going to invade Iran. And Iran, as pissed as they are about losing a unique and incredibly beloved leader, cannot afford to provoke a full-scale hot war with the United States."

article

 

[DA SWO]

Opinion | Iran and Trump likely broke international law. And 176 innocents paid the price.

"One way, perhaps posing a moral rather than legal question, is to ask whether the 176 souls who perished on that plane would still be alive had the United States not sought to kill  Qassem  Soleimani."

Not sure if this belongs in the What's Wrong With the Left thread. For fucks sake, do they refuse to hold people accountable?

She's full of shit.
Military officers are fair game.
ICRC is another organization that could disappear.

 

[Brill]

Odd that the American MSM isn’t covering this at all.

Search Twitter - #HearTheVoiceOfIranians

 

[Ooh-Rah]

 

[Bambi]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1114081

“A group of Iranian protesters demanded Saturday that the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, step down after the government said its military had by mistake shot down a Ukrainian plane, killing all 176 people on board.

Also on Saturday, Iran briefly detained the British ambassador to Iran.”

 

[Brill]

Also on Saturday, Iran briefly detained the British ambassador to Iran.”

Well THAT ain’t good. BBC is following events.

Iran plane crash: Protesters condemn 'lies' on downed jet Protesters in Iran condemn 'lies' on downed plane

 

[racing_kitty]

I’m willing to bet the farm that somehow this is all a result of “Orange Man Bad.” The British ambassador was arrested for no valid reason. He’s free now, but he should never have been arrested at all.

The ayatollah has no idea about the first law of holes.

 

[Bambi]

I’m willing to bet the farm that somehow this is all a result of “Orange Man Bad.” The British ambassador was arrested for no valid reason. He’s free now, but he should never have been arrested at all.

The ayatollah has no idea about the first law of holes.

Just keep digging, orange man bad - citizens protesting against their leader while Americans are apologizing.. what?

 

[AWP]

Iran said the flight was believed to be a cruise missile.

I'll let y'all sift through the data to see the depth of this BS.

Ukrainian flight PS752 shot down shortly after take off from Tehran | Flightradar24 Blog

Looking at the Wikipedia publishhed specs for the SA-15's radar, it would have tracked the aircraft shortly after takeoff.

 

[Blizzard]

^ Yeah, the Iranian response is so stupid. Just how many in coming cruise missile attacks do they have originating out of Imam Khomeini International? They shot done the flight almost immediately after takeoff. Incompetence at it's finest.

Between the funeral and the shoot down, Iranians have killed far more Iranians in this ordeal than the U.S. or anyone else combined.

 

[SpitfireV]

I do wonder if the guy/commander was a conscript, went outside to have a piss or whatever or woke up and saw it on the screen and had an ohfuckohfuckohfuck moment.