Iran Agrees De-escalation ‘Only
Solution’ to Solve Crises
Agence France-Presse,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/12/2020 4:01:46 PM
Tehran – Iran signalled Sunday it favours “de-escalation” after 10 days of heightened tensions with the United States that saw both sides fire missiles and led Tehran to accidentally shoot down a passenger aircraft. Security was stepped up in Iran’s capital after a vigil the previous night for those killed in the air disaster turned into an angry protest and police temporarily arrested the British ambassador for being there.US President Donald Trump meanwhile warned Iran against harming demonstrators and against a repeat of a deadly crackdown against rallies in November sparked by a fuel price hike. “To the leaders of Iran – DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/12/2020 4:30:12 PM (No. 286611)
Which side of their mouth are they lying out of this time?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 1/12/2020 4:37:00 PM (No. 286620)
Now comes the spinning and shutting down of internet to quell dissent.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 1/12/2020 4:52:44 PM (No. 286633)
They are starting to get frightened. Now that they know that ANY of them could go POOF, at any time, and that their people want them dead, perhaps it is time for them to be shipping gold out and talking to travel agents.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 1/12/2020 5:00:27 PM (No. 286642)
Actually, I was thinking incineration wass working pretty well.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/12/2020 5:08:05 PM (No. 286646)
Is there anyone in the US who still believes that Tehran accidentally shot down a passenger aircraft., then you are as dellusional as the Staff at Agence France-Presse.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 1/12/2020 5:36:26 PM (No. 286654)
#5, you give these losers far more credit for brains than they deserve. This is a screwup of the first magnitude, no question. They are idiots and their "best and brightest" in charge of these SAM batteries are not geniuses, either.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
edgar 1/12/2020 5:48:14 PM (No. 286660)
Someone should tell Chris Wallace. He is all in on Iran escalating tension since Trump has been elected.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tsquare 1/12/2020 5:51:12 PM (No. 286662)
Careful #6. Remember Iran air 655, and likely twa 800? We make bonehead screwups too.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/12/2020 6:01:30 PM (No. 286667)
Note to the mullahs - get rid of your nuke program. Then we'll talk.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 1/12/2020 9:38:23 PM (No. 286758)
No idea of the details of Flight 800, # 8, but the key initial factor in the Iran 655 shoot down was that they were using a transponder code for a civil airliner which had been used by an Iranian F-4 Phantom jet the day before (verified). THAT put the target into our system as a 'known' military aircraft, and that it was on a direct course over the ship added to the idea that it was an Iranian military attack. After those two factors, the USN crew screwed the pooch on that one, should not have fired, but they had two pieces of data which seemed to indicate that it was a hostile aircraft.
In the Tehran case, an aircraft taking off from your own city and climbing away would seem to be a pretty obvious 'non-hostile' if they had the slightest greater situational awareness.
This is why it is my opinion that they probably had the SAM system on an automatic mode which would engage any aircraft entering the sector. Apparently no effective IFF codes (transponder codes) being used by the SAM system to discriminate enemy from aircraft working with local civil air approach/departure/tower systems, apparently, too. Shooting down an aircraft which took off from your main civil airport a couple of minutes before is a major screwup.
If the USN did that to Flight 800, it is seriously incompetent, too. That may partially explain why the crew is willing to go along with the Clinton admin coverup, if that is what actually happened, which seems very likely. I have three generations of naval aviators in my family, and it is very distressing to think an USN Aegis crew did this, but after the several ship collisions recently, I am wondering at the level of compromise that the Navy has accepted to meet staffing and diversity goals, and with limited budgets, too few ships and too much for each to do. And perhaps that wasn't the cause, but at this point, the coverup prevents us from even being sure that they did it, and certainly prevents us from learning anything about it, or learning anything FROM it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JrSample 1/12/2020 10:25:11 PM (No. 286784)
Big difference with the Vincennes incident. The IRGC patrol craft had engaged Vincennes earlier and fired on their recon helicopter. The airbus departed Bandar Abbas which is dual use military and civilian air base. Realize this all occured after Operation Praying Mantis, after the Iran Ajar siezure, after the Iranian mining of the Strait of Hormuz, after USS Samual B. Roberts struck a mine, after the USS Stark had been hit buy an Iraqi exocet. The Vincenes crew was operating in a hostile war zone and being confronted by potential air and surface threats from a beligerent rogue country which had repeatedly threatened attacks. Add to this the stupidity of Iran allowing commercial aircraft to fly over an AAW cruiser that had just been attacked earlier that day.
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