(Telegraph-UK) Con Coughlin - With the Iranian regime's woeful attempts to conceal the full extent of its involvement in the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet as it left Tehran, the rulers responsible for the brutal repression Iran has suffered since its 1979 revolution have revealed themselves to be little more than a bunch of incompetent and corrupt liars. When confronted with incontrovertible evidence of their catastrophic handling of the economy which has brought oil-rich Iran to the brink of Venezuelan-style penury, their response is to blame the U.S. for imposing punitive economic sanctions. No mention is ever made of why the sanctions were imposed in the first place, such as the regime's funding of terror groups and its efforts to deepen its interference in countries like Yemen, Iraq and Syria. Consequently, the Islamic Republic is experiencing its greatest existential crisis. Key figures within the regime are said to be deeply unhappy with the country's current predicament.
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