House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday responded to the Prime Minister’s comments that escalating tensions in the Middle East led to the disaster
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, on Jan. 9, 2020.Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, said “there’s no blame” for the United States in the Iran shooting down of a passenger plane that killed 176 people, including 57 Canadians.
“There’s no blame here for America. America stood up once again for freedom. Iran went past a red line they had not gone before: killing a U.S. citizen. Iran shot down an innocent commercial airliner. There’s no doubt where the blame lies,” Mr. McCarthy told reporters.Trudeau says Canada wasn’t warned of Soleimani strike, says crash victims would be alive if not for U.S.-Iran tensions
In retaliation for Mr. Soleimani’s death, Iran bombed two U.S. military bases in Iraq. That same night, Iran’s missile defence system shot down a Ukrainian International Airlines flight that had just taken off from Tehran’s airport. Iran has said its military mistook the plane for an American cruise missile. All 176 people on the plane, the majority of whom were heading to Canada, were killed.
“I think if there were no tensions, if there was no escalation recently in the region, those Canadians would be right now home with their families,” the Prime Minister said. “This is something that happens when you have conflict and war. Innocents bear the brunt of it.”“The reason there are [176] dead people, innocent, is because Iran shot a missile and shot down a commercial liner. The reason why anything escalated is because Iran went and bombed tankers, Iran shot down a U.S.
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