Airliner makes emergency landing in Iran as American suffers heart attack

MSNBC is reporting that an American aboard an Emirates airliner is in hospital in Tehran after he suffered a heart attack while the plane was in Iranian air space. He was on a flight from Dubai to Seattle.

A spokesperson for Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said:“Yesterday (Friday), an airplane belonging to the Emirates airline, flying from Dubai to Seattle and while passing over Iran’s airspace, contacted the control tower and announced that one of this flight’s passengers had suffered a heart attack,” The man 52 was still in hospital yesterday.

Swiss diplomats in Iran handle U.S. interest. They declined any comment on the report. Iran may have problems collecting for any expenses since sanctions cut off any financial transactions through U.S and even international banking institutions!

When disasters of this sort strike nations of all stripes seem to be able to act. Perhaps this will improve the atmosphere at nuclear negotiations. For more see this article.

The Pentagon admits that the special unmanned spy plane the RQ 170 Sentinel went missing while on a joint mission of the military together with the CIA. The Pentagon says it is lost in Iran somewhere although they question the Iranian claim that they shot it down.

Dennis Kucinich a US. congressman says that he is worried by the fact the CIA is involved in the operation. "We have to be very careful that we don't stumble into a wider war here. If we are in Iran's airspace with anything that belongs to the US, that's a provocation,"

There is evidence that a covert war against Iran has been going on for some time. Software that runs centrifuges that are part of Iran's nuclear program were infected with a damaging virus. An Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated . In another case a mysterious explosion at a secret base killed another important scientist. The latter was possibly an accident however.

As of this posting Iran has not released any photos of the drone which they say was not damaged that much. The drone has a great deal of surveillance electronics equipment that is secret. If the Iranians really have it then it could provide them with a great deal of useful information. For more see this article.