Iranian expat offers a few words about the legacy media and people who comment on Iran
Ezra Levant tweet:
Q: How much responsibility does US bear for this tragedy?
Trudeau: Evidence suggests this is the likely cause.
Q: Do you feel US is partly responsible given they created the situation in which the missile was launched?
T: That’s one of many q’s people will be thinking about. pic.twitter.com/VrTAlreod8
— Ezra Levant ? (@ezralevant) January 9, 2020
CBC framed the question to force people to think it was the US’s fault that Iran shot down a passenger jet after the US responded to yet ANOTHER Iranian attack on a US embassy.
Video verified by The New York Times appears to show an Iranian missile hitting a plane above Parand, near Tehran’s airport, the area where a Ukrainian airliner stopped transmitting its signal before it crashed on Wednesday.
A small explosion occurred when a missile hit the plane, but the plane did not explode, the video showed. The jet continued flying for several minutes and turned back toward the airport, The Times has determined. The plane flew toward the airport ablaze before it exploded and crashed quickly, other videos verified by The Times showed.
Trudeau lets Iran off the hook for shooting down the jet within 90 seconds of his beginning this press conference. Again, if Israel or the US had shot down this jet even because of a systems error, which would likely be the nature off the accident, more specifically, a badly designed air defence system misidentifying the jet, his language would be stronger and less forgiving it is fair to assume.
To be fair to a singularity unfair man, He does say our FM condemns Iran’s strikes against military bases and other targets. That was our FM though, not Trudeau.
Death of Neda Agha-Soltan – Wiki
Excerpt: Alleged killer
The man accused by opposition sources of killing Agha-Soltan was identified as Abbas Kargar Javid, a Basij government militiaman, after photographs of the Basiji’s ID cards appeared on the internet, according to The Times.[49] Opposition critics and pro-government sources allege that Western intelligence agencies carried out the shooting.[50][51][44]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan
Basij – Wiki
Excerpt:
As of July 2019 Gholamreza Soleimani is the commander of the Basij.[16][17] The force was often present and reacting to the widespread 2009 Iranian election protests and 2017–18 Iranian protests.[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basij
FOR NEDA (English)
ThisIsForNeda
FOR NEDA reveals the true story of Neda Agha-Soltan, who became another tragic casualty of Iran’s violent crackdown on post-election protests on June 20, 2009. Unlike many unknown victims, however, she instantly became an international symbol of the struggle: Within hours of Agha-Soltan’s death, cell phone photographs of her blood-stained face were held aloft by crowds protesting in Tehran and across the world. With exclusive access to her family inside Iran, the documentary goes to the heart of who Neda was and what she stood for, illuminating the larger Iranian struggle for democratic freedoms through her powerful story. Directed by Antony Thomas.
When I heard about the plane crashing my first thought was either a fault in the missile system or someone that was trigger happy, in today’s Iran it could be either.
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Iran @ 13:27
They talk about not letting children (or adults) have guns, but allowing imbecilic hypersensitive, doomsday fanatics to have missiles …and nukes… is okay. I still remember the story about 3 jihadis standing behind a recoilless rifle when it was fired.
Anyone who wishes to see Iran’s view on the ethics of war should read up on the Iran Iraq war where the world “collateral” is seen as irrelevant and children as excellent minefield clearers.
When I was on active duty there was a clause in the Geneva Convention that said that if the enemy hadn’t signed the Convention or was ignoring the Convention we weren’t required to follow the Laws of War spelled out in the Convention.
I wonder if that clause is still in the Convention?