According to Iranian media reports recently, an Iranian Mahan Airlines passenger plane took off from Tehran to the Lebanese capital Beirut, when passing over Syria, it was intercepted by two US fighter jets, and the Iranian passenger plane was forced to lower its altitude. According to flight records, the airliner suddenly dived and raised altitude again during this flight. After the plane landed, it was found that several passengers had been injured during the trip, the luggage in the cabin was scattered, and some people were wearing life jackets.
The U.S. side acknowledged that this had happened. U.S. Defense Department officials said that when the Iranian airliner flew over the U.S. military's Altanf base in Syria, a U.S. F-15 fighter immediately took off to check, and the nearest distance between the two sides was about 1,000 meters, maintaining a safe distance and meeting international standards. The other F-15 was only in the nearby airspace, and the pilot could not even identify the airliner with the naked eye. The Iranian side clearly reprimanded the United States for carrying out "terrorist acts in the air" and said that it had lodged a complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization for the US military's threat to Iranian passenger aircraft. Some experts on international issues pointed out that for a hegemonic country like the United States that "does not change its thief nature," it is common for unreasonable harassment and threats against others to use planes and ships, and no international law can sanction it.
This incident reminds Iranians of a painful past, and it is also an event that makes Iran and the United States a complete enemy, that is, the 1988 Iranian civil aviation airliner was shot down by the US military. At that time, at the end of the Iran-Iraq War, the United States and Iran broke out in the Persian Gulf naval battle, an Iranian airbus A300 passenger plane in the normal flight over the Strait of Hormuz, by the U.S. Navy cruiser "Vincennes" believed to be the Iranian Air Force's F-14 fighter, without any identification of friend or foe questions, the U.S. warship fired 2 SM-2MR ship-to-air missiles at the Iranian airliner, resulting in the death of all 290 people on board. Until eight years later, the two countries reached a settlement under the mediation of the International Court of Justice, and the US side compensated $130 million, but in the end neither "apologized" to the victims.
Recently, although the United States has turned its main "firepower" to China and Russia, the relationship between the United States and Iran is not calm. In order to support Venezuela in alleviating the pressure on energy supply and generating export foreign exchange earnings, Iran ignored the THREAT warnings of the United States to send light crude oil to Venezuela, and Venezuela sent its navy and air force to the coastal armed guards, resulting in the threat of the United States failing to work.
However, for Iran, the biggest thing at present is whether the international arms embargo can be lifted in October this year, and Russia and China will obviously support the lifting of the embargo in the "five permanents" and oppose the united States' request to continue to extend the embargo. The renewal of weapons and equipment is the basis for Iran to be tough in the face of the United States in the future. Text/PY