World Affairs Brief, January 17, 2020 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.

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IRANIANS ADMIT MISTAKEN DOWNING OF AIRLINER

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The downing of the Ukrainian airliner in Iran did provide fodder for renewed protests within that regime against religious rule in Iran. There are millions of Iranians who long for a return of the security government run by the Shah, even though he used ruthless tactics against the opposition. The current government wins elections because the majority of Iranians are poor Muslims who vote the way their clerics tell them to. That is why democracy is always a danger to liberty and thinking people. The largest sectors of any nation are uniformed and relatively non-thinking, easily swayed by a controlled media or leadership. They are always attracted to socialism and rabble rousing leaders, and will always outvote the minority that favors economic and religious freedom.

So it is natural that university students want out from under the heavy hand of the Ayatollahs, but the US Deep State is busy infiltrating protestors and even killing some in order to make things worse for the government. Remember this whenever US talking heads repeat their constant complaint about Russian interference in the US election. The US is the biggest example of a country interfering in other’s internal affairs, by a long shot. The Daily Mail reports the mainstream narrative, which always blames the killings on the Iranian government:

Thousands have flocked to the streets of the Iranian capital after the government admitted that a passenger jet carrying 176 people had been downed by a missile last week. Pro-government gunmen have opened fire on demonstrators in Tehran, according to local reports, just hours after Trump warned ‘do not kill your protesters.’

Other images showed a ‘militiaman’ holding a shotgun running away from the scene as a crowd gathered around the woman who was allegedly killed not far from the iconic Azadi Square.

Why would the Iranian government kill protestors which will only make them more angry and hateful toward the government, and justify more US criticism? It doesn’t make sense. It is the same question I asked when the world blamed president Assad of Syria for the chemical weapons attacks against his civilians in an urban environment, and knowing that the US was just waiting for that kind of excuse to pounce on him: Why would he do this to himself?

It doesn’t make sense, and that is why I suspect US Deep State infiltration in this violence, just as China sent infiltrators into the Hong Kong protests to start violence that would turn the people against the protestors. It is easy to hire thugs to dress up as either civilians or militia men and use a shotgun on people, or hire snipers to kill. The Iranian government has repeatedly disclaimed responsibility for the shootings, just as Assad has always denied using chemical weapons on his people. Yet, the media keeps up the drumbeat. Now, that’s interference in another country’s affairs.