Proof please? CNN claims Russian missiles crashed in Iran, Moscow refutes, US can’t confirm
Proof please? CNN claims Russian missiles crashed in Iran, Moscow refutes, US can’t confirm
Published time: 8 Oct, 2015 22:16
Edited time: 8 Oct, 2015 22:37
A CNN report, claiming that several Russian cruise missiles targeting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) positions in Syria actually landed in Iran, has been refuted by the Russian Defense Ministry, while the US State Department say they can’t confirm.
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The American broadcaster cited two unnamed US officials, who said that four Russian missiles had crashed somewhere in Iran after being launched from vessels in the Caspian Sea. The report suggested that “some buildings were damaged and civilians may have been hurt.”
READ MORE: 4 Russian warships launch 26 missiles against ISIS from Caspian Sea
This triggered a quick reaction from the Russian Defense Ministry, with spokesman Igor Konashenkov saying that all the missiles had hit their targets on Wednesday. “Unlike CNN, we don’t distribute information citing anonymous sources, but show the very missile launches and the way they hit their targets almost in real time,” Konashenkov said. The spokesman pointed out that the strike targets are being photographed before and after being hit, while Russian drones are monitoring the situation from Syrian skies 24/7.
The high precision strikes might have been “unpleasant and surprising for our colleagues in the Pentagon,” but the fact is that “the missiles launched from the ships hit their targets,” he said.
“Otherwise one would have to acknowledge that IS facilities – located at a considerable distance from each other – exploded all by themselves,” Konashenkov said.
US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that he couldn’t confirm CNN’s report, according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, a source in Iran’s Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti that Tehran has “no information of Russian missiles crashing on Iranian territory.”
On Wednesday, four Russian naval warships in the Caspian Sea fired a total of 26 missiles at positions of Islamic State in Syria, hitting all the targets, according to Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.
Moscow slams Carter’s warning about cost of Syria strikes
Konashenkov also lashed out at a fresh statement from Pentagon head Ashton Carter, who predicted Russian losses in its Syrian operation.
“In their assessments of the US military’s actions in various operations conducted by them all over the world, the Russian Defense Ministry has never stooped to publicly speaking of expectations of the deaths of American soldiers” Konashenkov stressed.
READ MORE: Combat report: Russian jets strike 27 terrorist facilities in Syria overnight
According to the spokesman, Carters’ words demonstrate the degree of cynicism among “some of the representatives” of the current US government.
Moscow’s air operation in Syria “will have consequences primarily for Russia itself,” Carter said at a press conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
“I expect that in the next few days the Russians will begin to lose in Syria,” the US Defense Secretary added, also mentioning the possibility of retaliatory attacks by extremists in Russia.
Russia launched its anti-terror air campaign in Syria at the request of the Syrian government on September 30.The Russian military has destroyed over a hundred terrorist targets, including command posts, ammunition depots, training camps and armored vehicles, since the start of the operation.
Tags: CNN, Iran Scam, Islam, Islamic Jihad, Islamic slaughter, Islamic State, Jihad, Russian missiles, Syria, Terrorism, USA
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WarSclerotic 
October 9, 2015 at 11:42 AM
Info released by CNN based on some “anonymous” reporters.
As I posted before, less than 24 hours before its put to rest.
This kind of psychological war only has one aim, and it’s a dangerous one.
It seems to me that there are people around the world (and we all know who the usual suspects are) that want this conflict to escalate and become a bigger, regional war.
And that’s what i think it’s going to happen.
As I’ve written here before, this war will escalate dangerously, it will become bigger with more countries involved… but I doubt it will become the thermonuclear WW III that the stupid prophets (especially those people influenced by the “End Times” nonsense) of the rapture idea promulgate.
October 9, 2015 at 12:20 PM
some one like this exemplar .
Secretary of State John Kerry warns the world that more and more people will be fleeing the devastation caused by global warming. “It’s something new. We have climate refugees today,” he said during a town hall event about the oceans.
Kerry described climate refugees as people who had to leave their homes because of drought, rising sea levels, and thawing permafrost.
“[T]he day could come, if we don’t respond rapidly, you could have millions of climate refugees. You could have people moving from whole areas where today you can grow things and tomorrow you can’t,” he said.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/08/john-kerry-predicts-millions-climate-refugees-will-need-special-status/
October 9, 2015 at 3:05 PM
I wonder, did these alleged errant missiles land on any hospitals? This smacks of desperation by the US, as does the warning that Russia will ultimately “lose in Syria”. Great to see such a defeatist attitude to fighting jihadism…
October 9, 2015 at 3:28 PM
loosing is possible and special if the USA supply stingers to the terrorist .