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These jets have been upgraded and maintained as precious semi-modern weapons. Key point: Iran knows its weapons are out-of-date. However, it also knows it should keep and improve what U.S.-built planes and systems it still has. Tensions have escalated in the Persian Gulf region in the aftermath of U.S. president Donald Trump’s decision unilaterally to withdraw the United States from the agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. military has implicated Iranian agents in several summer 2019 attacks on civilian ships sailing near Iran. The U.S. Navy sent the aircraft carrier USS ...

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Pilots failed to respond to radio calls. >> the only thing the u.s. pilots were looking to do is to make sure that this wasn't an airplane that was going to threaten the u.s. troops on the ground. >> reporter: once the f-15 verified the airliner as civilian, a military official said it departed safely. but the iranian pilot went into that steep dive all the same. >> they probably looked out, they saw a fighter, and said, oh, my gosh, we've got to get low and we've got to get out of here. >> reporter: the plane did land safely in beirut, but there were numerous injuries since the descent was so...

Through the weekend. rob, thank you. next, to a close encounter between a u.s. fighter jet and an iranian passenger plane in the skies over syria. iran saying the passenger plane descended 14,000 feet in four minutes in order to avoid a collision, injuring some passengers. martha raddatz with the images and what the u.s. military is saying tonight. >> reporter: the videos show chaos during a frighteningly steep plunge on a civilian airliner. while not verified by abc, iranian state television says these videos show the moments after iranian pilots descended 14,000 feet in just four minutes. ...

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