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Taj Iranac što je okačio sliku sudeći po Tviter nalogu živi u Americi i podržava Trampa.

Личи да јесте, врх ракете, управљачке команде.

То је озбиљан систем, чудо да су били тик поред аеродрома, лаки на окидач.

Мада је то радарски управљан, тешко да би помешали авион са нечим, за шта немају најаву.

rumbeando wrote:Taj Iranac što je okačio sliku sudeći po Tviter nalogu živi u Americi i podržava Trampa.

Autošovinista

I ovaj iz Bellingcata ga izgleda otpisao.

(Personally: I am leaning towards this being a recycled photo, taken from Telegram or Whatsapp and previous taken in a different incident/country. The source is not at all trustworthy)

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) January 8, 2020

AZ-5 wrote:msm iranci salju poruke mozemo u milimetar da vas gadjamo a da nikog ne ubijemo 

Mojne tako, iranska državna televizija je javila da su pobili 80, a ranili 200 Amerikanaca nakon čega je ministar spoljni tvitovao da su uspešno izvršili samoodbranu po članu 51 povelje UN.

An Iranian regime-run media outlet claimed that more than 80 Americans were killed in an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile strike on US forces in Iraq early Wednesday.

“An informed source at the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said over 80 American troops were killed and some 200 wounded in the IRGC’s missile strikes on the US airbase of Ain al-Assad in Anbar province in western Iraq,” Mehr News reported on Wednesday.

The US said Wednesday that while damage assessments were still underway, there were no reports of US casualties from the strike. The Iraqi army, too, said Wednesday that no Iraqi soldiers were hurt in the assault, which followed the US killing on Friday of one of the IRGC’s top commanders, Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani.

Mehr, which is owned by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization, a branch of the Iranian government, credited the report to “IRIB,” or the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran’s public broadcaster whose head is appointed directly by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-state-media-claims-more-than-80-us-soldiers-killed-in-missile-barrage/

Iran Is Not a Threat to Our Security. Trump’s Saber-Rattling Is.
By Eric Levitz@EricLevitz

Five years ago, Benjamin Netanyahu informed the U.S. Congress that the Iranian government, and the terrorist group ISIS, were two different flavors of the same poison.

“Iran and ISIS are competing for the crown of militant Islam,” the Israeli prime minister told the House of Representatives, in an address aimed at blocking the Obama administration’s pending nuclear agreement. “One calls itself the Islamic Republic. The other calls itself the Islamic State. Both want to impose a militant Islamic empire first on the region and then on the entire world. They just disagree among themselves who will be the ruler of that empire.”

The upshot of this analogy was simple: If you wouldn’t trust ISIS to engage in good-faith diplomacy, you shouldn’t trust the terrorist regime in Tehran to do so either.

American hawks beat the same drum. The Islamic Republic’s terroristic irrationality was the keystone of their argument. After all, if Iran were a normal nation-state — endowed with an instinct for self-preservation, and an accurate understanding of its own limited power — then it would pose no dire threat to the U.S. or its allies. Objectively, Iran is a minor, regional power that has no rational use for a nuclear weapon except as a deterrent against foreign aggression. If Iran possesses reason, then its possession of an atom bomb would not risk genocide, but merely shift the balance of power in the Middle East. In which case, there would be every reason to give diplomacy a chance — and little excuse for the saber-rattling Netanyahu’s American admirers so keenly desired.

Five years later, it is now indisputable that this was, in fact, the case. The nuclear deal did not collapse beneath the weight of Iran’s bad faith, but beneath that of our own. And if Iran’s attempts to uphold that agreement did not put its rationality beyond dispute, its response to the killing of Qasem Soleimani surely must.

The Quds Force commander may have been a war criminal in the eyes of many Iraqis and Syrians. But within the Islamic Republic, Soleimani was a celebrated war hero. An estimated 1 million Iranians turned out for his funeral; at least 56 of whom lost their lives to the perilous scale of their nation’s grief, their bodies crushed beneath a stampede.

In the face of national mourning and humiliation this profound, even the most rational of nation-states would be liable to overreact. After violating its diplomatic promises, and imposing draconian sanctions on the Iranian economy, the United States had just assassinated a high-ranking Iranian official in brazen defiance of international law. How would an ISIS-like entity, whose thirst for the blood of infidels outstripped its concern for its own survival, respond to such an attack?

Would it wait a couple of days for the United States to increase security at its bases in Iraq, fire 22 missiles at two of the hardest targets it could find, and then — having killed zero Americans — declare that its national hero’s death had been avenged, and seek a truce with his killer? If this hypothetical sounds ludicrous to you, then Donald Trump’s characterization of the Iranian regime should too.

In remarks to the nation Wednesday morning, the president wisely shrugged off Iran’s tepid retaliation. But even as he implicitly acknowledged Tehran’s restraint, Trump reaffirmed the right’s conception of Iran as a “terrorist” state. He did not deride Soleimani as a war criminal, but as “the world’s top terrorist,” described Iran as the world’s “top sponsor of terrorism,” and claimed that its “pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world.”

For the moment, Iran’s prudence, and Trump’s willingness to take the “win” Tehran tacitly offered him (lightly damaged bases being a small price to pay for Soleimani’s life), has brought us back from the precipice of war. But if Americans wish to maintain our distance from that ledge, we will need to recognize that our government brought us to this point by stoking fears of a phantom threat.

The Iranian “threat” is an American fever dream.
Iran does pose a serious threat to American influence in Iraq, and Saudi hegemony in the Middle East. Its Islamist regime also represents a modest (though not “existential”) threat to Israeli security and regional influence, as well as a fundamental obstacle to the personal freedom of Iranians in general, and Iranian women and LGBTQ individuals in particular.

But Iran poses no serious threat to American national security.

That last fact is inconvenient for U.S. foreign-policy elites who would like to sacrifice American lives and wealth to the causes of maximizing Washington’s influence in Iraq, Riyadh’s hegemony in the Persian Gulf, Israeli security, or regime change in Tehran (most of the Trump administration’s foreign-policy hands fall into at least one of those buckets). Persuading America’s infamously provincial public to embrace an expansive conception of their nation’s “core interests” — let alone the specific conception favored by America’s anti-Iran hawks — is hard. Persuading Americans that they have an interest in not dying in a terrorist attack is, by contrast, fairly easy. For this reason, a defining feature of American foreign-policy discourse is its willful elision of the distinction between threats to U.S. interests (as tendentiously defined by elite policy-makers) and threats to the physical security of the American people.

Anti-Iran hawks aren’t the only ones who engage in this rhetorical sleight of hand. It is endemic to Washington’s foreign-policy community. House Democrats, and the State Department officials who testified at their impeachment hearings, routinely described Russia’s incursions into the Donbass as a threat to America’s “national security” — as though the only thing standing between Vladimir Putin’s declining petro-state and geopolitical parity with the world’s preeminent economic and military power was control of an impoverished, environmentally degraded slice of Eastern Ukraine. More broadly, the equation of challenges to American “regional interests” with threats to the nation’s domestic security is baked into our government’s basic vocabulary: The White House’s principal foreign-policy planning body is not called “The Geopolitical Strategy Council” but rather, the National Security Council, even though the bulk of its activities have little to do with securing the American nation-state.

But the Trump administration, and its allied anti-Iran hawks, conjure phantom threats to American security with exceptional fervor and mendacity. And not without reason: If Americans had a clearer understanding of the nature of “the Iranian threat,” they would likely have less tolerance for Donald Trump’s belligerent posture toward Tehran.

When the president designates Iranian state institutions as“terrorist” organizations, he is inviting the public to associate the Islamic Republic with the kind of violence their nation experienced on September 11; which is to say, mass casualty attacks on the American homeland. In recent days, Vice President Mike Pence made this subtext explicit by ludicrously accusing Soleimani of involvement in 9/11. And yet, Iran has never perpetrated mass violence on U.S. soil. Further, as Jefferson Morley noted last year in The New Republic, the last fatal terrorist attack on Americans abroad that could plausibly be attributed to Iranian proxies was the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996. Soleimani and his government are doubtlessly complicit in reprehensible violence against civilians across the Middle East, and for the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. But targeting the uniformed military officers of an army that invaded and occupied a country on false pretenses, and in defiance of international law, is not terrorism by any reasonable definition (no matter how pointlessly destructive and morally odious such attacks may be). The significance of this point isn’t merely semantic. The Trump administration would like us to see Iran’s willingness to target American troops in Iraq as indicative of the regime’s interest in threatening the security of American civilians in the U.S. And there is little basis for that deduction.

Unfortunately, equating the threat that Iran poses to America’s arguable interests abroad with a threat to Americans’ security at home is a bipartisan enterprise. Which is likely one reason that a new HuffPost–YouGov poll finds that 71 percent of American voters consider Iran “a serious threat to the United States.”

The road to war with Iran was paved (primarily) by U.S. policymakers.

Iran’s theocratic regime is loathsome in many respects. But it is not an implacable foe of the United States, or an irrational terrorist state, and its current hostility toward the U.S. is largely the product of American policy choices.

To appreciate this point, consider some pieces of context for the U.S.-Iran conflict that are routinely elided in the American press.

• When Donald Trump was 7 years old, the United States orchestrated a coup against Iran’s democratically elected government, leaving its people subject to the rule of an authoritarian, pro-American regime for decades afterward.

• Shortly after Iran’s Islamic Revolution overthrew that regime, the U.S. aided Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in its invasion of Iran, a war of aggression that claimed hundreds of thousands of Iranian lives. In addition to more conventional forms of assistance, our government knowingly abetted Saddam’s illegal chemical-weapons attacks, even as the Iraqi dictator was deploying sarin gas against his own people. Thousands of former Iranian soldiers still suffer from health problems caused by such attacks.

• In 1988, the U.S. military fired a surface-to-air missile at a passenger plane flying in Iranian airspace and incinerated 290 innocent people. Iran did not retaliate militarily.

• Despite these historical grievances, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Iran rounded up suspected Al Qaeda members who had crossed its border with Afghanistan, made copies of their passports, passed their information along to the U.S. government, and allowed American officials to interrogate many of the detainees. James F. Dobbins, the Bush administration’s top negotiator on Afghanistan during the period, later said that Iran had been “comprehensively helpful” in “working to overthrow the Taliban militias’ rule and collaborating with the United States to install the Karzai government in Kabul.” Amid this collaboration, the Iranian government made diplomatic overtures to the George W. Bush administration, seeking comprehensive negotiations over the various areas of conflict between the two countries. Its offer was rebuffed. The U.S. president cast Iran as a member of an “axis of evil” along with Iraq and North Korea, and his administration proceeded to openly advocate for the overthrow of the Iranian regime.

• The United States then invaded and toppled the government of Saddam Hussein, which did not have nuclear weapons, while declining to militarily confront North Korea, which, by the end of Bush’s tenure, did.

• In 2015, the United States reached an agreement with Iran, Britain, France, and Germany that it would suspend sanctions on companies and countries that did business with Iran, so long as Tehran suspended its nuclear weapons program. The Iranian regime proceeded to do just that, ditching its highly enriched uranium and tolerating an invasive inspection program.

• Three years later, the U.S. violated that agreement. Despite Tehran’s undisputed compliance with the deal — and over the objections of its core allies — the U.S. imposed draconian new sanctions on Iran, along with any European companies that dared to invest in it. Those sanctions have plunged the Iranian economy into a devastating recession. Its currency has halved in value. For ordinary Iranians, the cost of living has skyrocketed. For many seriously ill Iranians, the cost of staying alive has proved prohibitive.

This list obviously represents a potted history of the U.S.-Iran conflict, one that highlights the latter nation’s grievances to the exclusion of the former’s. My aim here is not to provide a comprehensive account of relations between the two countries, but merely to offer a corrective to U.S.-centric coverage of the conflict, so as to help Americans better understand the nature of the Iranian “threat” they supposedly face.

The Trump administration portrays Iran as an irrational, revolutionary regime that has intervened in Iraq and Syria for purely offensive purposes, and seeks a nuclear weapon for potentially genocidal ones. But that narrative has much less credibility when Iran’s actions are viewed in historical context.

Take Iran’s actions in Iraq. Is Tehran’s interest in securing hegemony in a border state that once launched a devastating eight-year war against it difficult to understand? Is the regime’s desire to minimize the influence of the United States in Iraq irrational, given America’s past support for Saddam’s invasion, and perennial calls for the overthrow of the Iranian regime? Imagine that Iran had spent the 1980s aiding a Mexican invasion of the United States that had resulted in hundreds of thousands of American deaths. If Iran then invaded Mexico decades later and toppled its government — while loudly declaring its desire to affect regime change in the U.S. next — might the U.S. government rationally conclude that countering Iranian influence in Mexico was among its vital national-security interests?

Or take Iran’s alleged pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Would it be irrational for Iran to observe what happened to Iraq and Libya — and what didn’t happen to North Korea — and conclude that a nuclear weapon would constitute a vital deterrent against foreign aggression?

Finally, consider Iran’s most recent provocations. If a foreign power imposed sanctions on any entity that invested in the United States — in direct violation of an agreement that that foreign power had signed with the U.S. — and our country proceeded to suffer a devastating recession, might our government feel a need to impose costs on the foreign power in question for its diplomatic treachery?

The point of these thought experiments is not to justify the Iranian regime’s behavior, but merely to try to understand it. Just because Tehran has intelligible reasons for seeking dominance in Iraq does not mean that it has morally legitimate ones. What it does suggest, however, is that the Iranian regime’s restraint Tuesday night was characteristic, not aberrational: The Iranian regime is not an irrational, inscrutable aggressor that cannot be dealt with like any other state. This point should never have been controversial; even Iran’s bitterest adversaries in the American and Israeli security Establishments have long described the regime as “very rational.” And history supports their assessment. Iran did not shrug off America’s accidental incineration of an Iranian passenger plane, or provide aid to the U.S. after 9/11, out of its exceptional benevolence. Rather, it did so in deference to the same rational assessment of the limits of its own power that tempered its retaliation Tuesday night.

The Iranian regime is interested in making peace with the U.S. — even on starkly inequitable terms — because it is aware of its own relative weakness. America’s current regime, on the other hand, is only interested in making peace on entirely one-sided terms because it is aware of the very same thing. Put differently, the Trump administration’s hardline stance toward Tehran is predicated on the very truth that its propaganda is designed to obscure: It is precisely because Iran does not pose a serious threat to the United States that we can afford to blithely violate our agreements with its government, or assassinate its generals, and receive only “a little noise” in return.

Exactly why this White House decided to press America’s advantage over Iran to the point of risking another Middle Eastern war is unclear. What is clear, however, is that the administration does not trust the American people to endorse its true reasoning, and is therefore trying to make us fear an illusory threat.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/01/trump-iran-statement-speech-iraq-strike-soleimani.html?__twitter_impression=true

Око узрока пада украјинског авиона нема још увек нема новости.
Оно што је збуњујуће је да онаква експлозија и истовремени губитак АДСБ сигнала су врло нетипични за некакав квар.
Такође је необично за погодак ракетом. Још увек нема доказа који би на то указали. По авиону је могло да се дејствује само из непосредне околине.
Уосталом квар се десио непосредно по полетању, у зони где узлећу авиони са техеранског аеродрома, што је све прилично далеко од границе са Ираком или Залива одакле би били проблеми са америчким снагама.

Међутим, примећено је да је авион каснио сат времена на полетању. Пошто је то био други лет тог јутра, очигледно није због гужве. Изгледа да је имао техничке проблеме са мотором. То би објаснило и зашто су Иранци одмах саопштили да је пад због техничких проблема.
У ситуацији у којој се нашла украјинска посада, тог јутра је било ракетирање америчких база, могућ амерички одговор, логично је да би упркос ризику хтели да се што пре удаље из Техерана. Други проблем је да би због санкција према Ирану слање резервних делова и опреме за поправку било прилично компликовано, дуготрајно и на крају скупо, што би за украјинску компанију био велик проблем. Због свега тога би Украјинци полетели са мотором који је већ имао проблеме.

Ово све наравно још увек није потврђено, али се чини као могућ сценарио.

pa to bi bilo izuzetno neodgovorno.

Sotir wrote:По авиону је могло да се дејствује само из непосредне околине.

Netačno.

Iran ima gomilu dugodometnih S200 sistema koje su oni sami prerađivali i dorađivali a koji imaju nezgodnu osobinu da izgube zaključani cilj i da se onda ne samodetoniraju već da zaključaju neki drugi cilj koji je nekad i par stotina kilometara dalje. Tako su Ukrajinci oborili onaj nesrećni ruski avion kad su imali PVO vježbe.

Sovjetska škola samo da je što dalji domet i što veće eksplozivno punjenje a što sistem nije pouzdan nema veze, ljudski životi su svakako potrošni materijal.

Sotir wrote:Изгледа да је имао техничке проблеме са мотором.

Avion je bio star samo tri i po godine i imao redovni servis dva dana ranije.

The aircraft was built in 2016 and delivered directly to the airline from the manufacturer. The last scheduled maintenance of the aircraft took place on 06 January, 2020.

https://www.flyuia.com/ua/en/news/2020/uia-confirms-plane-crash-in-iran

Detalji:

Ukraine International Airlines flight 752, a Boeing 737-800, crashed near Sabashahr, about 8 minutes after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Iran. Al 167 passengers and nine crew members on board were killed.
The flight took off from runway 29R at 02:41 UTC (06:11 LT), with a delay of about one hour. The aircraft's ADS-B data as recorded by flight tracking websites Flightradar24 and Flightaware stop at 02:44 UTC at an altitude of about 7900 feet at a position about 20 km west-northwest of the airport. The aircraft crashed minutes later near Sabashahr, 15 km north of the airport. It desintegrated completely and wreckage was strewn along a 300 m long path.

A video, supposedly of flight 752, show an aircraft that appears to be on fire descending across the night sky and impacting the ground. CAO Iran released a.o. the following preliminary information:
- After takeoff the flight was cleared to climb and instructed to contact Mehrabad ATC
- Radar contact was lost at 8000 feet
- Crash occurred at 06:18
- Impact occurred in a park and the aircraft disintegrated along a forward trajectory
- An eyewitness on the ground and another flight crew reported a fire on the airctaft
- The direction of ground impact indicates that the plane was on its way back to the airport
- CVR and FDR have been found; outer casing has impact and fire damage
- CAO Iran sent formal notification per ICAO Annex 13 to Ukraine (country of registration), USA (country of manufacture), Sweden and Canada (passengers of those countries were on board)
- CAO Iran invited per ICAO Annex 13 the authorities of these countries as party in the investigation
- A special working group on the investigation team will focus on explosives

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20200108-0

Spisak putnika, gotovo bez izuzetka svi iranskih imena, svega 4 sa švedskim prezimenom i jedna Ukrajinka.
https://www.flyuia.com/ua/en/news/2020/flight-ps752-passenger-list

MNE wrote:

Sotir wrote:По авиону је могло да се дејствује само из непосредне околине.

Netačno.

Iran ima gomilu dugodometnih S200 sistema koje su oni sami prerađivali i dorađivali a koji imaju nezgodnu osobinu da izgube zaključani cilj i da se onda ne samodetoniraju već da zaključaju neki drugi cilj koji je nekad i par stotina kilometara dalje. Tako su Ukrajinci oborili onaj nesrećni ruski avion kad su imali PVO vježbe.

Sovjetska škola samo da je što dalji domet i što veće eksplozivno punjenje a što sistem nije pouzdan nema veze, ljudski životi su svakako potrošni materijal.

Мапу у руке.
Северно и јужно су врло високе планине.
Било који ПВО систем који је могао да дејствује је морао да буде у тој долини.

Ројтерсов чланак.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/ukrainian-boeing-737-crashes-after-take-off-in-iran-all-170-aboard-killed-idUSKBN1Z70EL

Један од канадских истраживача наводи да се мотор прегревао.
Ако је сервис рађен пре два дана и нешто урађено лоше, то би се прилично брзо показало.

Just to illustrate the dangers of over-interpreting early imagery: in the later (and better) images of the wreck, we can see that many of the specks that look like holes in the left image are actually rocks etc. Only the point marked with number 2 seems to be a puncture. pic.twitter.com/CXVL20fFSr

— Veli-Pekka Kivimäki (@vpkivimaki) January 8, 2020

Justin Bronk, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)'s Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology. Part-time PhD on historical airpower at KCL:

A few thoughts on the missile theories circulating on the crash of #PS752 near Tehran: first and foremost, neither side in the US-Iranian standoff had any incentive to attack a Ukrainian airliner flying out of Tehran... the airliner was also filled with Iranian civilians. 1/
Assuming an accidental launch, here are some issues with the theory: Tehran airport is deep inside the country, not where you would expect any uninvited USAF guests to first be detected. Iran had no known airspace penetrations that night. 2/
#PS752 had just taken off from an Iranian airport, was being given a radar control service by Iranian ATC, and was transmitting transponder ident. The SA-15 missile fragment being spread around is fired by a modern system with datalinks and transponder receive capability. 3/
The airliner was on a climb out profile at medium altitude on a flight path that puts it on the opposite of a potential threat vector. So odds of an SA-15 crew misidentifying #PS752 as hostile even if operating completely as a stand-alone system are low. 4/
Finally, given Iran was in the middle of firing a volley of ballistic missiles at US bases, their whole air defence network will have been on high alert. ie. with senior commanders supervision, assets at top readiness and as connected as possible for max situational awareness 5/
None of which is intended to say that a SAM fired in error is impossible; maybe it was somehow. However, I would suggest it’s enough to assume an accident on board until air crash investigators get a good look at the wreckage and decide otherwise. 6/

https://twitter.com/Justin_Br0nk/status/1215229809581752322

In Washington, a Democrat who attended a classified briefing from Trump administration officials on Capitol Hill — including Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and CIA Director Gina Haspel — said the briefers had no intelligence indicating the plane was shot down. The lawmaker spoke on condition of anonymity.

https://apnews.com/2a253e68d45381f16b89edc5cc45bba1

Second image (right) of Tor anti-aircraft missile debris, supposedly from near the #PS752 crash site. Still unverified, and still going to be very hard to geolocate it based on what's visible in the image. h/t @Liberalist_30 pic.twitter.com/TQNRp6hopj

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) January 9, 2020

#BREAKING: I just spoke to someone who had heard to small explosions in #Parand before crash of #Ukraine Intl Airlines Flight #PS752. According to what he said & the 2nd image which I have received, it seems #IRGC mistook #PS752 with a #USAF fighter jet & shoot it down by Tor-M1! https://t.co/ztFRv0dOwr pic.twitter.com/Wy9G0ODnGh

— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 9, 2020

rumbeando wrote:

Sotir wrote:Изгледа да је имао техничке проблеме са мотором.

Avion je bio star samo tri i po godine i imao redovni servis dva dana ranije.

ali je od tog redovnog servisa imao 6-7 letova za tih par dana, msm u svakom slucaju kad te spuca raketa nebitno je kad si isao na servis

Ово јесте врх Тор ракете.

Слика се појавила у друштвеним медијима, не зна се ни где је снимљена.
Неки је наводно смештају на место удеса. То би значило да се закуцала у авион и остала у њему, а види се да врх није ни огребан. Значи да није могла да буде близу пада, има доста подметања.

Друго Тор је систем који има савремен радар, увезан у командни систем. Могао је да препозна и авион и његов сигнал. Због кризе је ирански ПВО био сигурно врло будан. Да неко помисли тик поред аеродрома да су то некакви американци, је врло мало вероватно.

https://www.unian.info/world/10823759-ps752-crash-ukrainian-experts-examining-boeing-wreckage-in-iran-say-fire-didn-t-start-from-engines.html

PS752 crash: Ukrainian experts examining Boeing wreckage in Iran say fire didn't start from engines


Members of the Ukrainian state commission investigating the crash of the Ukrainian Boeing 737 near Tehran, who had earlier arrived in Iran and have examined the plane wreckage. The engine malfunction version cannot be confirmed, a Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov said with reference to his source in the team.
"At present, our group has arrived at the site where the fragments of the aircraft are being transported. It is an open area where everything found in the area is being taken.
"Currently, I am observing both aircraft engines – and I don't see any traces of fire on them. Fragments of the right wing were brought here, too – there are also no traces of fire on them, so the version of engine malfunction, engine explosion, can't be confirmed at the moment. The plane was on fire, but the version of engine malfunction is not being confirmed," the source said. He has added that Iranian officials provided preliminary information they had gathered.

The plane took off at 06:13, but after five minutes into the flight, at an altitude of 2,400 meters, the plane began to descend, caught fire, and then crashed. Read also Iran invites other countries to join probe into Ukrainian plane crash "According to Iranian flight control dispatchers, no messages were received from the aircraft crew. The plane allegedly turned back toward the airport, but we don't understand yet whether this U-turn was deliberate or already uncontrolled," he said.

At the same time, the Ukrainians have not seen air traffic control radar data. There is no information on objects that could be flying near the Boeing and collide with it, or if there was a missile launch. This information is yet to be provided to Ukrainians. According to the source, the Iranians are fully cooperating in the investigation.

"The Iranians don't seem to be going to keep any info from anyone, they are going to provide access to the investigation and decryption of black box flight recorders to all parties, including Americans, aircraft manufacturers, as well as all countries whose citizens died, in accordance with the Chicago Convention... Iranians demonstrate normal dialogue, there are no signals that they intentionally seek to hide any information, so far everything is right and transparent enough," he said.

Butusov, in turn, suggests a fire could break in the cabin. "The absence of any communications with the dispatcher and the absence of fire in the engines suggests that the version of a terrorist attack, a collision with a drone, or an anti-aircraft missile explosion is very likely," the journalist alleged.

Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/world/10823504-polish-general-responds-to-putin-s-accusations-against-warsaw.html

#BREAKING: Eyewitness reports & wreckage of 9M331 missile found near #PS752's crash site prove that the Boeing 737-8KV of #Ukraine Airlines is shot-down by Tor-M1 SAM of #IRGC|ASF located in a ballistic missile research facility of #IRGCASF! They mistook it with a #USAF airplane! https://t.co/4zu7TGEe3x pic.twitter.com/wlNyORe1Ip

— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 9, 2020

ovolko ljudi na tom mestu i ovakvo ekspresno sklanjanje ostataka, manje vise je sve jasno, nesto se petlja sa dokazima 

The Ukrainian flight that crashed just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran was struck by an anti-aircraft missile system, a Pentagon official, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek.

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a Boeing 737–800 en route from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airpot to Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport, stopped transmitting data Tuesday just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched missiles at military bases housing U.S. and allied forces in neighboring Iraq. The aircraft is believed to have been struck by a Russia-built Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system, known to NATO as Gauntlet, the three officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, told Newsweek.

One Pentagon and one U.S senior intelligence official told Newsweek that the Pentagon's assessment is that the incident was accidental. Iran's anti-aircraft were likely active following the country's missile attack, which came in response to the U.S. killing last week of Revolutionary Guard Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, sources said.

https://www.newsweek.com/iranians-shot-down-ukraine-flight-mistake-sources-1481313?piano_t=1

Stanovnici okolnih kuća su imali puno sreće.

Crash impact area can be seen on a Sentinel-2 image from today pic.twitter.com/OmYVGdEwB6

— Gennadii Donchyts (@gena_d) January 8, 2020

U.S. intelligence picked up signals of a radar being turned on, sources told CBS News. U.S. satellites also detected two surface-to-air missile launches, which happened shortly before the plane exploded, CBS News was told.

Federal officials were briefed on the intelligence Thursday, CBS News transportation Kris Van Cleave reports. A source who was in the briefing said it appears missile components were found near the crash site.

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/plane-crash-us-officials-confident-iran-shot-down-passenger-jet-bound-for-ukraine-today-2020-01-09-live-stream-updates/

to je cena letenja tamo gde niko normalan nece zbog profita, samo sto ovaj put nije bilo reskir profitir

Па оно, све да су Иранци толики дунстери да из чиста мира припуцају на велики путнички авион који само што је полетео са највећег цивилног аеродрома у земљи, немој само да се испостави да се у сјени тог авиона мотало још нешто, страног порекла...
Користило гужву, прилику.