Saturday, January 11, 2020
Iran Admits It Accidentally Shot Down Ukrainian Plane
Iranian officials have admitted to accidentally shooting down a Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet on Wednesday, killing all 176 on board. In a statement released Saturday, the government blamed “human error” for its military firing the missiles that destroyed the Boeing 737-800, the Associated Press reported.
The Iranian government had previously maintained that engine failure caused the crash, which occurred shortly after the airliner took off from Imam Khomeini International Airport outside Tehran, bound for Kyiv. Many of the passengers were due to make a connecting flight to Toronto—82 Iranians, 57 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians were among the dead.
Friday, January 10, 2020
House Approves Measure to Restrain Trump's Military Action Against Iran
https://time.com/5762537/house-approves-measure-trump-iran/
The House passed the measure, 224-194, with almost no Republican support. A similar proposal by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., faces an uphill fight in the GOP-run Senate. Kaine’s efforts received a boost Thursday as Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana, an ex-Marine, said he might support the war powers measure. Two other Republican senators said Wednesday they would back Kaine’s plan.
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Malka Leifer declared fit to stand trial
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274332
Malka Leifer, a former Australian educator accused of sexually
abusing minors at a haredi school in Melbourne, has been declared fit to
stand trial, after having been previously determined to be mentally
unfit.
The decision was announced Thursday afternoon by a three-member
psychiatric panel which had been assembled at the order of the Jerusalem
District Court last September, after a medical committee found evidence that Leifer had faked mental illness
in order to avoid being placed on trial or extradited to Australia,
where she is wanted for 74 charges of sexual abuse against minors.
The intel that helped US absorb Iran's attack - ALL IS WELL?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274325
NYT says US intel exposed Tehran revenge plan for Soleimani killing, military evacuated troops to safety and missiles only hit empty hangars
NYT says US intel exposed Tehran revenge plan for Soleimani killing, military evacuated troops to safety and missiles only hit empty hangars
Ukraine wants to search Iran plane crash site for possible Russia missile debris
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-wants-to-search-iran-plane-crash-site-for-possible-russia-missile-debris/
A senior security official in Ukraine said Thursday that
investigators want to search the site where a Ukrainian plane crashed in
Iran the day before for possible debris of a Russian missile, and said
there had been a reference online to the existence of such debris.
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Trump Says 'Iran Appears to Be Standing Down.' But History Suggests That Might Not Be So Simple
https://time.com/5761483/iran-retaliation/
U.S. President Trump told reporters Wednesday that there were no casualties. While that presents the Trump Administration an off-ramp from the warpath,
a closer look at Iran’s history of respondings to its enemies’
aggression suggests it’s too early to say whether this is, in fact, the
end of its retaliatory moves.
Codenamed “Operation Martyr Qasem Soleimani”, Iran’s
fusillade of more than a dozen rockets struck Al Asad Air Base in Iraq’s
Anbar province. Another barrage beginning at about 1:30 am local time
hit an airbase in northern Iraq’s Erbil. U.S. and European government
sources familiar with intelligence assessments told Reuters on Wednesday they believed Iran had deliberately sought to avoid U.S. military casualties.
“Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense
under Article 51 of UN Charter,” the Republic’s Foreign Minister Javad
Zarif wrote
on Twitter soon after the strike. He added that Iran did not seek
“escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression.”
“Iran appears to be standing down,” Trump said during
a short address at the White House on Wednesday morning. He also
boasted of the U.S. military strength and said he would immediately
impose further sanctions on Iran.
But in a Twitter post
issued only hours after Zarif’s, Iran’s Supreme Leader Khameini seemed
to contradict his foreign minister, casting doubt on whether Iran’s
retaliation has indeed concluded. “[The Americans] were slapped last
night, but such military actions are not enough,” he said.
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