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There Was No "Human Error" in Iran's Shootdown of Ukraine Airlines Flight

(Ottawa Citizen-Canada) Terry Glavin - On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down by two missiles shortly after takeoff from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). All 176 passengers and crew were killed, including 55 Canadians and another 81 permanent residents, students and others with direct ties to Canada. Up until today, the Iranian government has been lying through its teeth about what happened. For three full days, the regime insisted that something must have gone wrong with the plane and only admitted to shooting down the plane when it became absolutely impossible to deny. And they've been covering up and withholding evidence ever since. On Tuesday, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Ralph Goodale released a 76-page report on the Canadian government's response to the disaster, which finds no room for mere "human error," but instead points at "indications of incompetence, recklessness and wanton disregard for innocent human life." The International Civil Aviation Organization assigns investigative responsibilities to the countries where the disaster has occurred. This would be fine, if Iran were a normal country. Iran isn't a normal country. It's a theocratic police state that isn't even accountable to its own people.
2020-12-24 00:00:00
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