US warplane 'chases' Iranian plane, then ...

The U.S. warplane has been accused of chasing Iranian passenger planes over Syrian airspace. Various Iranian media outlets have published a report with a video of the incident on Thursday evening local time.

A report from the Iranian news agency IRIB said that a passenger plane of the private airline Mahan Air came close to a US F-15 fighter jet while it was in Syrian airspace. It is claimed that the two planes would have collided in a short time. At that moment, the pilot of the Iranian plane quickly changed altitude and lowered it. Several passengers of the passenger plane were injured in the tremor.


However, the United States is claiming that this is not the case. A U.S. military spokesman, Capt. Bill Urban, said the bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a U.S. military base. It was at a safe distance of about one thousand meters. It was a regular patrol. Al-Tanf is a US military base on the Syrian-Jordanian border.


A video attached to a BBC report shows a passenger on an Iranian plane bleeding. Another had a bandage on his head. According to the concerned, many passengers fell on the floor in this incident. Besides, the retail goods of the passengers were scattered.

Al Jazeera reports that the Mahan Air plane was en route from Tehran to the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The plane landed safely in Beirut despite the incident in Syrian airspace. Today is Friday and it is back in Tehran.

The two passengers on the Mahan Air flight spoke to the news agency IRIB. One of them commented, ‘I can’t say what happened next. A black plane approached us. This caused our aircraft to lose its balance. My head was blown off when I hit the roof. '

Another passenger said, ‘It was a warplane. It literally stuck with our plane. We lose our balance and keep bouncing up and down. '

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said his country had launched an investigation into the incident. They will take necessary political and legal measures in this regard.

Tensions between Iran and the United States have been running high since early 2018 over the signing of a nuclear deal. Tensions have risen since the assassination of General Kashem Solaimani.