An F-15 u.s. air mission routine was approached by a flight of iran above the Syria, where the United States maintains troops.
Iran protested Friday to the united nations and international civil aviation against the “flagrant violation of international law”, after an airliner iran has been approached dangerously over Syria by planes to fight the americans. The incident occurred Thursday is a new episode of tensions between the United States and Iran, enemy countries, which have seen a new peak after the unilateral withdrawal in 2018 of the administration of Donald Trump of the international agreement on the iranian nuclear issue and the recovery of u.s. sanctions against Tehran.
The Center of american command, which oversees u.s. operations in the Middle East, has confirmed that one of its F-15 “air mission routine had approached the aircraft in iran above the Syria, where the United States maintains troops. In the night, the public television of iran has released a video of passengers in panic, screaming as the plane-line of the company Mahan Air, making the connection Beirut-Tehran seems to be trying to evade a fighter aircraft.
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“the pilot of The commercial plane has quickly reduces altitude to avoid colliding with the hunter and several passengers were injured,” according to the tv. On the images, we see the injured passengers, one has the front covered in blood and the other floor contorted face. A single fighter airplane is visible flying in the vicinity. According to the official news agency of iran Irna, the pilots of fighter aircraft, “presented themselves as the americans,” during a conversation with the crew of the aircraft to Mahan Air which was travelling from Tehran to Beirut.
In a first time, Iran has accused Israel, another enemy country, to have attempted to intercept the aircraft iran has finally landed without problems in Beirut, but the authorities in Tehran have then pointed the finger at the United States.
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messages of protest were sent to the Organization of the international civil aviation organization (ICAO) and the embassy of Switzerland in Tehran, which represents Us interests in Iran in absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries, said the spokesman of foreign Affairs in iran. “If something happens to the plane on the way back, Iran will hold the Us accountable,” warned the spokesperson, Abbas Mousavi, quoted by the website of the agency Irna.
The civil aviation Organization of iran has released a statement protesting against “the action of us combat aircraft”, considering as “a flagrant violation of international law” and demanded an emergency investigation with ICAO. According to Irna, Iran’s representative to the UN will write soon a letter “to the security Council and the secretary-general of the united nations” to denounce “the threat to passenger aircraft to Mahan Air.”
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The Center of american command said in a press release that a F-15 american “air mission routine had approached the aircraft in iran. “Visual inspection” is made to be 1000 meters away, and was conducted “in accordance with international standards,” according to the press release. “Once the pilot of the F-15 has identified the aircraft as a passenger aircraft to Mahan Air, it is away from the device safely”.
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In Lebanon, security sources in lebanon have reported that the plane iran had landed at the airport of Beirut. “There were four minor injuries among the passengers.” In neighboring Syria, a country plagued by war, the official media have stated that aircraft likely to be the international coalition led by the United States, had approached the plane iranian.
