Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin: US Had 'No Part To Play' In Crash That Killed Iran's President

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin denied any US involvement in the deadly crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday.

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[ckofexd]

Note to oneself - first reaction, we didn't do it.

[roaringlion]

Why deny involvement, if the crash was a weather-related crash?

[Sinister_Souls]

Didn't blow up the Nord stream pipeline either...

[kydelastra]

What's to investigate!? You fly a copter designed in the mid 60's through mountains with a 70° incline in super dense fog at 130mph... even a potato knows the end result.

[JohnWick-elyw]

This is like when they said safe and effective its the opposite 😂

[johncase]

Pro tip dont get on a helicopter that will fly through any area with high winds and turbulence.

[krunchie]

Why the hell would you even have to deny it?

[josecotto]

Yes, because they have never lied before!

[edwinhidalgo]

Neither in Nordstream nor the Slovakian PM. So cute the innocents

[samfalcon]

“We swear it was the weather, but also our military wasn’t the one who shot down the helicopter”

[akbullies]

Bro Everytime something happens they be like it wasn't us😂😂😂😂

[xhosagibran]

They’ve said that with everyone they had involvement with.

[EGamer_]

Its almost like flying a 35+ year old helicopter through the mountians in foggy weather is a bad idea. People make up conspiracies over everything these days.

[SpencerWilliamsIV]

That helicopter ride was severely flawed. It would be like placing the president and secretary of state in the same air vessel to fly through mountains during a fog

[ciaronsmith]

Iran has so much depth in talent, it won't really affect them.
The new foreign minister they have appointed is a hyper smart dude.

[beenstork]

If the federal government says they had no part in it……then they had no part in it…….the federal government never lies 😂

[cdelane]

I can't believe the number of people who think this was anything other than bad foggy weather and horrible terrain. Also, the fact of an old helicopter didn't help matter. Dangerous thing to get started. They will be able to tell what happened by instruments on board the helicopter. There is no need to make things worse by speculating.

[Nihari]

Just like nord stream had nothing to do with us as per Biden

[joetaylor]

The fact that this particular bit of news keeps getting fed to me by the algorithm tells me precisely who is responsible for the crash.

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[zsmrffu]

BS, electronic warfare brought that pos down