TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian passenger plane flying from Tehran to Beirut on Thursday was “harassed” by fighter jets, Iranian state TV said, saying the plane managed to safely land in the Lebanese capital. A U.S. official later told The Associated Press that an American fighter jet did pass by the Iranian jet, but at a safe distance.
The reports said the interception forced the pilot to sharply change altitude, flying low and causing slight injuries among some of the passengers. “The visual inspection occurred to ensure the safety of coalition personnel at al-Tanf garrison,” Urban said. “Once the F-15 pilot identified the aircraft as a Mahan Air passenger plane, the F-15 safely opened distance from the aircraft.”
The aircraft landed soon after this but three passengers sustained injuries and were taken to hospital, the TV report said, citing what it described as informed but unnamed sources at the Beirut airport. The report also said some of the cabin crew were injured but did not elaborate. The ministry’s spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said Iran is investigating the incident. The same note was also delivered to the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres by Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Majid Takht-e Ravanchi.
As expected the AP won't remind the facts that the US are illegally occupying Syria, illegally stealing its oil and illegzlly violating their sovereign territory and airspace daily, without any UN SC mandate to do so. Our West live off mass propaganda and Goebbelsian fairy tales
Don't worry. We are here to protect you.
What are we even doing over there? We are becoming the ‘evil empire’ that we used to accuse the Soviet Union of being. Let’s get our own house in order. 🇺🇸
Some crazy lunatic ex Iranian air force’s idiot flying a passenger plane 😂😂😂
Safe distance Its a bad mistake & every thing comes with a price
Interesting way to form the tweet: “Iranian State TV falsely accuses US fighter jet of harassing passenger plane”
Iran 🇮🇷 is a country where according to history used to be a wonderful country Since Khomeni ,,,?
The aircraft made an emergency landing
Does everyone in this admin read Russian or did Vlad have the handbook translated for us?
No Iran is gonna Blaime the us
Iran must act and stop this harrassment
Passenger planes can’t defend themselves and should be out of bounds from any harassment. Whoever approved the harassment should be reprimanded.
This is a bullshit story. US Army Fighter Jets? Which ones please do tell.
WTF is going on? Who is lying? Neither side has a very good track record
What is American jets doing in Syrian airspace ?
Aww poor baby Iran.
The Iranians harass us every single day flying in that area of the world. They will be okay.
The video inside plane says otherwise. There were kids on this plane .
See, even american fighter pilots can social distance. Bet they had masks on too...
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Iranians are having such a hard time nowadays. Maybe something else will blow up - soon
a safe distance of 2'
Iran was awfully quiet when they shot down a civilian plane
Trying to stir up Syria’s air defenses to shot down the airliner......that’s pretty low and sickening if that was the intent....
I sure hope we are bigger than this! But i do not trust EsperDoD , he is a kissass
Have you heard what the Chinese navy has been doing? Or the Russian air force? Probably not! To much other B.S going on in the news cycle!
Come on now. Americans don't 'safe distance' anything.
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