US plane dropped .. Messages from Tehran to restore tension to the region

Al Jazeera Net - Tehran

Hours after the envoy of the French presidency Emmanuel Bonn to Tehran to discuss the reduction of tension with Washington; the Iranian people woke up Thursday morning on the news of the fall of a US reconnaissance aircraft, and returned statements of challenge and threat again.

While the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced that its air defenses had shot down the US aircraft over the coast of the southern province of Hormuzgan, US Air Force commander in the region, General Joseph Gustella, said the plane was 34 kilometers from the nearest point in Iran.

Commenting on the event, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, General Hussein Salami, considered dropping the plane a courageous measure. He stressed that the Iranian border is red lines and that anyone who is exposed to it will not return and be exterminated. The same position was confirmed by the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani, saying that "the atmosphere of Iran is a red line and we will defend them with all strength."

"We do not intend to go to war with any country, but we are ready for it, and today's incident is the best proof of that," Salami said in a comment that appeared to be in response to a Pentagon statement on Wednesday about unwillingness to go to war with Iran.

Iranian analysts believe that the escalation has cast a shadow over the Gulf region since Tuesday, when Tehran announced it had dismantled a new network of spies "working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)."

On the other hand, US President Donald Trump said that "Iran made a very big mistake" because the plane was unarmed and over international waters. Asked how to respond, he said, "You know, of course - as you know - we will not talk much about it."

While observers view Trump's position as a warning of a military strike on Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which the United States calls a terrorist organization, former Vice President and White House nominee Joe Biden said "the last thing we need is a new war in the Middle East."

America "lies"
For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif announced his country's intention to refer the issue of the plane to the United Nations, accused of chanting Washington to impose "economic terrorism on Iran," and confirmed that the fall of the plane was in the waters of regional Iran, and it is in the possession of his country.

In the context, announced the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi, his country's complaint to the United Nations on Washington's violation of Iran's airspace, warning of any illegal entry by any foreign body of the airspace of Iran, blaming the aggressors responsible for the consequences.

For his part, described the head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian parliament Hishmatullah Pasha Basha "penetrate" the American aircraft to the atmosphere of Iran as "a violation of the Charter of the United Nations and Iranian national sovereignty."

Saying that this step is a complement to Washington's previous steps from dispatching warships to the region.

He added that what happened showed that Iran does not treat anyone in the defense of its territory, and that it has the necessary technical capacity and equipment for that.

In the same context, considered a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian parliament Mujtaba al-Nur that the downing of the plane represents a warning to the US administration that any attack will face a response that makes them regret it, and said that "neighboring countries to know that it is not immune to US espionage operations, Accusing Washington of destabilizing security and bringing chaos to the region.

Interaction and Trigidae
In an interview with Reuters, Hamid Reza Kazemi said Iran was neither Afghanistan nor Iraq, so that its enemies could achieve their goals by bombing several times and imposing a no-fly zone. Considering that the period of the war of oil tankers is over and the period of the war of technology.

For his part, an activist named Mitham said that "the Yemeni planes march through the American Patriot system and bomb the Saudi Jizan power station. The next day, Iran will drop the last American aircraft after it violated Iranian airspace."

Political activist Rasool Shukri Nia said, "Enough, Mr. Trump, the plot to blow up the UAE and Japanese ships has failed, and your aircraft carrier does not dare enter our territorial waters, and your espionage has been dropped."

While some recalled the targeting of the American Vincennes cruiser thirty years ago, an Iranian passenger plane over the waters of the Gulf and its passengers were killed, others thought the plane was shot down in retaliation for the victims of the incident, while one of the worshipers said, "Islamic Iran is ready to respond immediately and firmly to Any aggression, even though it does not want war. "