Why did the Iranians allow flights in the air in their airspace? They knew

[applegrove]

they were going to war the hours before. Trudeau just made a speech about ithe missile attack and how he does not think it was intentional on Iran's part. They had puctures of the canadian-iranians killed on the news last night. It never ended. So sad.

Apparently the pentagon says it was Russian made missiles that Iranians used to shootdown the jetliner (Barbara Starr CNN)

[Ohiogal]

1. I wondered the same thing

When I first heard about this tragedy.

[applegrove]

3. Surely they knew the US would know as soon as there was activity a their missile

launch sites hours before the attacks in Iraq hapoened.

[OhNo-Really]

13. Just a tragic coincidence plane Ukraine bound

This is the detail that raises doubts of intent and/or origin I think. Too many lies doesn’t help either

So many lives lost

[Hassler]

2. Ukrainian airplane downed by Russian missile--fired by Russia

[applegrove]

4. No they were russian missiles fired by Iran. I just saw Barbara Starr on CNN say it.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Russian missiles sold to Iran by Russia

Russia has nothing to do with this, other than that.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Agreed. The flight departed Tehran's Khomeini International Airport. The moment the missiles flew...

...they should've ground-stopped all commercial flights from the airport, knowing the potential for the US to strike back.

[applegrove]

7. It was Iranian missiles that struck the plane. There is something called the fog of war.

It should never have flown.

[Sherman A1]

12. Precisely

Someone screwed up big time and now lots of folks are dead.

[Girard442]

8. This is how WWIII starts.

Not with cold calculations, but with a cascading series of fuckups and hysteria. This is why you don’t mount a major attack on someone and hope to negotiate afterwards.

[still_one]

9. Exactly

[scarletwoman]

10. There was probably a failure to communicate between Iran's military and airport officials. nt

[Liberal In Texas]

11. I've been wondering the same thing.

The military should have closed the airspace before the missile attack on Iraq and kept it closed for at least the next day. They wouldn't have had to necessarily made it public that the attack was about to take place, but they could have unilaterally kept civilian aircraft from creating more confusion for them.

[Karadeniz]

14. Someone on t.v.said the rockets had stopped 4 hrs earlier.

[uponit7771]

15. 2 Words ... SEAN HANNITY .... No Joke, Hannity was talking about B-52 going to Iran

[moondust]

16. Need the timeline on that.

Time Hannity said that vs. time of crash.

It's entirely conceivable that Iranian and other foreign intel agencies watch Fox News as a source for what the Dump administration is up to.

[Kaleva]

17. B-52s can fly much higher then the effective ceiling of the TOR-1 missile system

"The Tor missile system is an all-weather low to medium altitude, short-range surface-to-air missile system."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_missile_system

I would expect the TOR system to be of no use at all in defending against high flying B-52s.