{"id":37939,"date":"2020-01-09T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37939"},"modified":"2020-01-09T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:02:10","slug":"a-serious-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37939","title":{"rendered":"A Serious Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials are stating that they are confident that the Iranian airline that crashed in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday night was hit by an Iranian missile.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Johnson posted the following at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/01\/about-that-ukrainian-737.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power Line Blog<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Taking into account the Iranian regime\u2019s obvious lying about the cause of the downing of the Ukrainian jetliner leaving Tehran this past Tuesday combined with the regime\u2019s subsequent refusal to turn over the aircraft\u2019s black boxes, and a reasonable person \u2014 say, the American Spectator\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/are-we-really-not-going-to-talk-about-that-ukrainian-737\/\">Scott McKay<\/a> \u2014 would infer that the regime shot it down one way or another.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Now comes word that \u201cU.S. officials said Thursday it was \u2018highly likely\u2019 that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board\u2026.The crash came just a few hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack against Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops amid a confrontation with Washington over the U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general last week. Two U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence, said they had no certain knowledge of Iranian intent. But they said the airliner could have been mistaken for a threat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/01\/major-update-us-confident-ukrainian-plane-shot-down-plane-has-shrapnel-damage-on-wings-and-fuselage-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> reported the following today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Al Hadath Dubai News reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/01\/breaking-dubai-news-iranian-missile-took-down-ukrainian-plane-that-exploded-after-takeoff-from-tehran-airport\/\">a missile took down<\/a> the Ukrainian flight after the crash on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>(Tweets were translated)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Al Hadath: Preliminary images of the Ukrainian plane suspected of being hit by an Iranian missile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IranianAirlinerTweet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IranianAirlinerTweet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IranianAirlinerTweet.png 509w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IranianAirlinerTweet-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IranianAirlinerTweet-500x166.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a>The majority of the passengers on the plane were Canadians and Iranians. It will be interesting to see if Canada responds to this at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials are stating that they are confident that the Iranian airline that crashed in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday night was hit by an Iranian missile. Scott Johnson posted the following at Power Line Blog today: Taking into account the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7876,5014,6673,4541,4029,2340,246,8203,5276,7021,11716],"class_list":["post-37939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-airline","tag-american-spectator","tag-ballistic-missile","tag-black-box","tag-canadians","tag-gateway-pundit","tag-iran","tag-power-line-blog","tag-scott-johnson","tag-the-american-spectator","tag-the-gateway-pundit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37941,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939\/revisions\/37941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}