"Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy." - Goethe.
"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
"From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods." - Herodotus.
In the days after the assassination of Soleimani by Trump and the tepid Iranian retaliation against American bases in Iraq there was a heightened state of expectation that a larger war was at hand.
People were nervous and anxious. Flags were raised and voices were lowered.
No one knows how the President would have responded to the Ayatollahs' strikes in Iraq had the tragedy of the plane crash not happened soon after.
That shocking event stopped the momentum for war dead in its tracks. It created a psychological opening for both sides to cool down and shift their rhetoric. There was a rift in the timeline to war.
It was very convenient that a low-level operator in the IRGC committed an "error" and mistook an American missile for a Boeing airplane, which is the official line of the Islamic Republic of Satan.
An excerpt from, "Iran tampered with victims’ phones, tablets after flight PS752 crash: report" By Mike Blanchfield, Global News, November 24, 2021:
The report says Iran’s claim that it closed its western skies as a preventive measure was false because flight tracking data showed other passenger planes in the air before the tragedy.
The report also says a leaked audio file of a meeting between Iran’s former foreign minister with other top officials, including senior military figures, shows an effort “to publicly propagate the narrative that Flight PS752 had crashed due to a technical failure.”
Not only is the Islamic Republic bad at fighting war, but its also bad at lying.
Any trained professional would be able to tell the difference between a passenger airplane and a missile so that story never held up to scrutiny. It was clearly not an accident.
So why did the Islamic Republic shoot down its own plane on purpose?
The only logical explanation as to why that plane was shot down is that the Islamic Republic didn't want the situation to escalate beyond the point of no return and needed to shift the story from an angry nation avenging a killed general to one in a state of mourning after experiencing the loss of innocents.
In essence, the Ayatollahs were afraid to wage war so they made a sacrificial offering to appease the gods of war and keep America's wrath at bay.
The victims who were killed in the plane crash were mostly dual-nationals and thus held very little social or political value for the regime. They were an acceptable sacrifice.
Had the plane been full of Basij youth or IRGC-trained volunteer fighters on their way to Syria then there is no question that it would not be mistaken for a missile.
Most governments are more than capable of killing their own people regardless of the circumstances or the reasons of the hour, especially ones that are led by ideological rulers who believe they carry a historical, even divine mission.
When we think about the government in Iran, as well as the governments in America and Israel, it is important to remember the nature of evil and the nature of modern totalitarian ideological states.
The parasitic and nasty ruling elites that govern these countries are willing to sacrifice common citizens to further their political and military aims. Their self-righteousness and deluded sense of historic importance enables them to carry out the most horrorific and unthinkable crimes. In fact, they do not view them as crimes but as necessary sacrifices.
In the minds of those behind the 9/11 attacks, the sacrifice served a great purpose. It was not simply an act of terror but a strategically brilliant psychological maneuver that propelled an entire civilization to war.
The shooting of Flight PS752 had the opposite effect. It turned the tide against war.
Both required the deaths of innocent souls.
Were the gods appeased?
Maybe for a day or a year or two.
But the furies will be back.
And the victims will have their day in court.
II.
Video Title: Parents of Casualties of Ukrainian Flight 752 Shot Down by IRGC: They Downed the Plane Intentionally. Source: MEMRI TV. Date Published: January 26, 2022. Description:
Mohsen Asadi-Lari and Zahra Majd, the parents of two passengers who were killed when the IRGC shot down Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 on January 8, 2020, said in an interview that was posted on Ensafnews.com on January 8, 2022 that the IRGC had intentionally shot down Flight 752, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The couple said that they are gathering evidence to prove that the "accident" was intentional, and they claimed that the plane was used as a “human shield” to prevent war with the U.S. after Iran targeted American military bases in Iraq in response to the U.S. assassination of IRGC Qods Force Commander General Qasem Soleimani a few days prior. They said that the IRGC explicitly said that had the plane not been downed, there would have been a war with America that would endanger 10 million Iranian lives, and they added that IRGC Commander-In-Chief Salami had insisted on paying them a condolence visit. The couple emphasized that the downing of Flight 752 was “no accident,” that the investigation was "fixed" by "reverse engineering," and that the trial held in Iran of those responsible would not serve justice. They described how none of their children's possessions from the wreckage were returned to them, including electronics, and they speculated that this may be because the electronics contained information about what happened on the flight. They also said that bulldozers cleared the crash site very quickly after the disaster.
