Acting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there is unverified information that at least six American F-35 jets were “in the Iranian border area” at the time when Iran accidentally downed Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 last week.

“This information has yet to be verified, but I’d like to underline the edginess that always accompanies such situations,” he said on Friday.

Lavrov stressed that it was important to understand the context of the incident, which occurred as Iran was on very high alert after retaliating against Washington’s assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

“There is information that the Iranians were expecting another attack from the United States after the strike but did not know what form it might take,” Lavrov said.

The Russian foreign minister added that he was not trying to excuse anyone for the incident.

On January 8, the Ukrainian plane crashed minutes after take-off near the capital, Tehran, while en route to Kiev. The incident led to the death of all of the 176 people on board, most of whom were Iranians.

Iran initially attributed the crash to technical failure but ultimately announced that the plane had been brought down by a missile fired due to “human error” after conducting further investigations.

‘Very serious red flag’

Speaking on Friday, the Russian foreign minister also said that the tragic downing of the Ukrainian plane served as a “very serious red flag” that signaled a need to “start working on de-escalation and not on constant threats.”

“An increase in tensions between Iran and the US will not help settle any single crisis in the region, if only because the tensions will be increasing,” he said.

Lavrov added that Washington’s “unprecedented” assassination of Soleimani “undermined and put into question all imaginable norms of international law.”

According to Iraqi officials, Soleimani had been invited to Iraq as a formal guest of the Iraqi government when he was targeted by a US drone strike at Baghdad International Airport.


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1. Donald Trump caused all these rubbish by threatening a sovereign nation. You don't sit down as president of the USA and start threatening fire and brimstones against other nations.

2. The Iranian government should have put restrictions on all commercial flights coming in and going out of the country.

3. Iran is not North Korea! Trump can afford to threaten NK in a bid to test their patience, but Iran is so impatient that they won't hesitate to use WMD if they have access to one.

4. America should stop acting like a rogue state.

5. Let's restore sanity in the world.

It's a selfish republican fight. After the billions spent by USA on the Iraqi war, it's Iran that now controls Iraq. USA wants control of Iraq so they can make money.

Nukilia:
1. Donald Trump caused all these rubbish by threatening a sovereign nation. You don't sit down as president of the USA and start threatening fire and brimstones against other nations.

2. The Iranian government should have put restrictions on all commercial flights coming in and going out of the country.

3. Iran is not North Korea! Trump can afford to threaten NK in a bid to test their patience, but Iran is so impatient that they won't hesitate to use WMD if they have access to one.

4. America should stop acting like a rogue state.

5. Let's restore sanity in the world.

They wouldn't try it, name one country that has use nukes in war, if Iran trys it before it get to usa it already taking down, but US has nuke in their war ship, it will be like text massage

Hyperchi:


They wouldn't try it, name one country that has use nukes in war, if Iran trys it before it get to usa it already taking down, but US has nuke in their war ship, it will be like text massage

Yes, just like the Iranian missile strikes on the Amerikan base in Iraq were taken down.

Zoharariel:


Yes, just like the Iranian missile strikes on the Amerikan base in Iraq were taken down.

Iran will try not to create a 2 in 1 situation, where it becomes not only them against US but also Iraq.

Iran can't send nuke to US but US can. Iran can only use Air to move it. And U can't be flying nuke over others airspace. But US has all air and sea and they can level Iran in a short move. US don't start war but they finish it.
US makes more money in war, Iran will lose money in war

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Yes, just like the Iranian missile strikes on the base in Iraq were taken down.[/quotel]
USA had advance warning but refused to at least 1 air defence missiles to shoot them down

Till a single proof is brought.