So, in the end, the Iranian regime admitted what the Voice of Islam has been writing about from the very beginning, contradicting Kremlin propagandists and anti-Western conspiracy theorists (https://golosislama.com/news.php?id=37859) — they were the ones who shot down the Ukrainian airliner over Tehran. Characteristically, the decision to fire a missile at a plane with 176 people on board, including 80 Iranians, mistaking it for an American warplane in a panic, was made by an officer-fool from the same gang that recently lost its leader and wanted to avenge him — the so-called KSSIR.
Well, they got their revenge… However, despite the actions of such fools, it must be acknowledged that the leadership of the regime behaved decently by admitting the obvious and apologizing to the victims. This has hurt the ego of many representatives of their strategic ally, who will never take responsibility even for the most obviously committed or accidental crimes, as was the case with the Malaysian airliner shot down over Donbass. Again, as with the Saudis, who were forced to admit that they killed Khashoggi, some «savages» appear more reasonable and civilized in the eyes of the whole world compared to the «stronghold of global Christianity».
But even against the backdrop of Tehran’s admission, Kremlin propagandists, who vehemently denied until the last moment that the regime could have shot down the plane, found themselves in a reputational quagmire. The regime itself is sinking deeper and deeper into a quagmire, both reputational and political. The country is witnessing increasingly violent protests, with participants openly chanting anti-regime slogans, including condemning its adventures outside the country and calling for attention to be focused on internal problems rather than external ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmdNEvrWuo&fbclid=IwAR3DBtptqENd8QazQaKwLVPRrnhpGSGC20ci4Yk-W0baJ-qM3CyvowKjBUM
People everywhere are tearing down portraits of the regime’s newly proclaimed idol, Qasem Soleimani, that are currently on display around the country. In short, by escalating the situation in Iraq that preceded the killing of Soleimani by the Americans, rather than responding to it, the Tehran regime has clearly overestimated its capabilities. However, it has no choice — in order to divert the discontent of the Shiites themselves, both in Iraq and in Iran, it must constantly unite them against an external threat. Otherwise, totalitarian regimes cannot exist.