[McGavin999]

Purge by the president of Iran. Perhaps the General was plotting a coup.....Not everyone in Iran is a nut case.

That's what I was thinking. We don't know anything about this guy and the new president seems to be purging a lot of people. Does anyone know anything about this guy?

[silverleaf]

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3456

Seems unlikely the President of Iran would want this guy dead. But plenty of others have good reason.

[Cap Huff]

According to a post at WoC, DEBKA (yes, I know . . .) Kazemi was an architect of the current super hard policies:

http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/007948.php#c4

Now, I usually ignore DEBKA, but they are sometimes right, and maybe so in this case.

[Cheburashka]

The Revolutionary Guard is not part of the Iranian military and is set up to be a more loyal counterbalance to the Iranian Army. Sort of like the SS or the NKVD divisions in World War II. He was almost certainly a black hat.
That another black hat bumped him off is a possibility.
Most likely this crash is the result of bad plane maintenance.

[F14 Pilot]