US warplane forced to land by Iran

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I caught a bit of this on the luchtime news at the story qwas breaking but I missed the detail. The only place I can find any info is sky news so anyone have any more news?

Also who thinks the Americans are trying to provoke a war with Iran - in light of the Warship that was captured after 'accidently' straying into Iranian waters earlier in the year?

[Huguenot]

It was an aid flight on a Hungarian plane. It's been allowed to complete its journey to Afghanistan.

I think it's unlikely that the US would want to provoke a war with Iran right now, and recently they voted down an Israeli resolution to bomb the nuclear facilities.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Yeh I knew they made Isreal back off, that's why I was a bit shocked by this incident. Thanks for the info - but are you sure it wasn't American? It may have been a rogue US pilot or something and the Hungarian story is to stop it escalating.

[Asset]

The US can't afford another war at the moment. I reckon a lot of this financial meltdown can be attributed to the amount of money spunked on the 'war on terror'.

[mockney piers]

I think we can be pretty confident it was what it was. When a British patrol strayed into Iranian waters the media value was maximised, some might say milked, then the sailors let go to show Iranian magnanimity.

If this was a US military supply plane could you imagine, but it left after a short delay, not much mileage to be gained from impounding an aid plane.

Move along, nothing to see here.