Posted on 01/11/2020 3:20:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Iran confessed to shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet because it couldn't keep lying about it, a foreign diplomat said. In an abrupt reversal for a regime at first intent on evading responsibility for the tragedy, Tehran admitted early Saturday that its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps accidentally shot down the jet.
“They understood that they can’t cover up anymore,” a Central European diplomat told the Washington Examiner.
Iranian officials initially blamed the crash on a mechanical error, while Western intelligence officials said that a surface-to-air missile shot down the plane. When local authorities bulldozed the crash site this week, the tragedy seemed likely to follow the template Russia set after Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014. Iran abandoned the subterfuge, though, as videos of the incident circulated online.
“They are not as good at disinformation as Russians are,” the Central European diplomat said.
“Russians are still denying MH17, and right after MH17, Kremlin came up with dozens of different scenarios, while Iranians had only one — plane tried to turn back, which indicates technical error.”
Iran admitted on Saturday that an IRGC anti-aircraft unit shot down the airplane hours after the regime launched ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq.
The public confession by Tehran is a rare retreat by an authoritarian regime in the face of a Western intelligence consensus. “The evidence was mounting up, and Iranians understood that they either admit or start blunt lies and denial,” the Central European diplomat said.
The accident occurred while the Iranian military was on high alert and while Tehran neglected to ground civilian flights that night, a Western intelligence official told the Washington Examiner.
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Are we beginning to see a rift between the Iranian leadership and the IRGC? This could be interesting.
I wonder if this evidence will be sent to Justin “Blackface” Trudeau? Even if so, he’ll continue to blame the U.S. for this.
Iranian bulldozers let them lie, just as Slick’s bulldozers took away the evidence from the Murrah Federal Building and W & Governor Pataki’s trucks took away evidence from the towers after 9/11, making NIST’s lies more seemingly plausible.
I’m reading there’s more to this story than a ‘mistaken’ shoot down.
https://twitter.com/Kerryactivism/status/1215413680281718785
This didn't stop our government when we shot down TWA 800.
ML/NJ
The public confession by Tehran is a rare retreat by an authoritarian regime
A lying theocracy. Great “religion” ya got there, peeps!
No such thing as these so called coincidences at this level.
It was the empty center fuel tank that exploded.
To be fair, the US military bulldozed the wreckage of a chartered DC8 carrying military back from Europe.
Theory was, it was brought down by the Iranian, taking off out of Gander, in reprisal for being given defective Hawkeyes (?) by Reagan, in exchange for the embassy hostages.
The bodies would have to be returned and they will be found to have bomb shrapnel in them.
Remind me - who was president in 1996 and who was 1st Lady?...
That would have been Slick Willie and the Commodities Scam Queen.
ML/NJ
I guess BleachBit doesn’t work for everybody...
Yepper - I’m hoping the reference tying the two together was taking that into account and not inferring the Trump Admin would do the same.
I wonder about the "accidentally" part.
Actually, I said a long time ago that Reagan might have also done his best to deny that our military had anything to do with the downing of TWA800.
Clinton's reasons were almost certainly political. Reagan's would have been military.
ML/NJ
I think Reagan, whom I admire(d) greatly, sometimes allowed himself to be steered the wrong way by some of his advisors.
Unless it had direct and serious National Security facets, I don’t think President Trump would allow such a lie, much less foster one.
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