Admitting to downing Ukraine jetliner will cost Iran regime dearly
The assassination of Gen. Soleimani gave the regime a golden opportunity to rehabilitate the IRGC in Iranian public opinion by focusing on its role in defeating Sunni jihadist organizations outside of Iran, such as ISIS and al-Nusra/al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. Those brutally sectarian organizations, which murder Shia and destroy their shrines, are even more unpopular in Iran than the IRGC. Suddenly, the crowds on the street were celebrating an IRGC commander, in scenes reminiscent of the 1980s when the revolution was new. But the honeymoon proved extremely short-lived. The Ayatollahs’ regime began to blow their golden opportunity before Gen. Soleimani’s body was in the ground.
The regime’s incompetence and indifference was evident on Tuesday morning as massive crowds gathered in Soleimani’s hometown of Kerman. The government wanted the crowds to be as large and as emotional as possible. It appears that more thought was given to the design of the giant posters that overhung the event than to managing the crowds or keeping people safe. The result was a deadly crush. About 60 people died in the stampede and more than 200 were injured.
The same reckless neglect was on display again 24 hours later, as Flight 752 fell from the sky.
It is a pattern in a country that has a record of preventable deaths on its roads, rails and in the sky.
The crash of Flight 752 is the fourteenth Iranian air crash since 2000 to have caused more than 25 fatalities. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/iran-iraq-crash-soleimani-trump-1.5423238
A pattern in a country that has a record of preventable deaths on its roads, rails and in the sky.
I think that now is not the time to try to extract pounds of flesh from the iranians. It will only serve to make them bitter. The downing of this airliner was a careless mistake by a government that had grown incompetent. Trying to drill into them punitively isnt going to serve any useful purpose at this point. I doubt that any fair investigation of the incident will lead to any intentional targeting of non combatant aircraft.
So have your investigation but now is the time to operate in kindness.
And they want us to trust them w nukes?
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