Iran doesn’t give up. Near the anniversary of 9/11, its media said NY’s towers were “never hit by a plane” and explosives collapsed them. Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu – Israel National News
Iran doesn’t give up. Near the anniversary of 9/11, its media said New York’s World Trade Towers were “never hit by a plane” and that fire could not have toppled them. The Iranian government-controlled PRESS TV told Iranians Wednesday the collapse remains an “unsolved mystery” and that “scientists, architects and engineers all over the world have questioned the official version of how WTC-7 fell down.” It denied official reports that “World Center 7 collapsed because of fire fueled by office furnishings” and quoted an architect named Richard Gage as saying, “Fires have never before caused the collapse of any skyscraper, even though there are numerous examples of much hotter, larger, and longer-lasting fires in these buildings.” A metallurgical engineer named Kathy McGrade told PRESS TV, “You cannot generate enough heat to melt steel.” The government-controlled news agency then said that witness at the site spoke of “massive explosions” before the tower collapse and concluded that the official version of the disaster was “impossible.” A structural engineer told the agency, “All the columns needed to be severed at the same time in order for that structure to fall the way it did.” Another supposed structural engineer was quoted as saying, “The destruction of evidence was a criminal act itself. It was already being carted away and destroyed when the investigators got there.” PRESS TV added, “Families of the victims demand that the cause of the collapse be investigated carefully because millions of people around the world, and not just scientists and engineers, want these unanswered questions answered.” Some Israeli coffee shops even refused to serve Turkish coffee, to protest the airing of a grossly anti-Israeli scene in a Turkish television show that depicted IDF officers allegedly shooting Arab babies. El Al resumed its daily flights to Istanbul in April 2010 after a hiatus of several years due to security concerns sparked by that growing relationship and Ankara’s parallel belligerence towards Israel. El Al and Turkey’s AtlasJet Airlines signed a codeshare agreement at the time, while Turkey’s tourism ministry hired a PR firm to resuscitate Israeli visits to the country. Less than a year later, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan continued to aim vitriol at Israel while tightening ties with Israel’s enemies, among them the Hamas terrorist rulers of Gaza. Erdogan announced in January 2011 that his nation “stands by Hamas,” which he called “a resistance movement… a political group,” and insisting “They are people who defend the land.” Kadima Knesset member Otniel Schneller suggested last year in response to Erdogan’s venom that Israelis boycott dried fruit from Turkey, which is imported in large quantities for the minor Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shvat. Many Israelis also purchase dried fruit with which to recite the Shehechiyanu blessing (gratitude for having “reached this season”) during the celebration of the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah, which begins this year at sundown on September 28.
