There are now reports that Iranian demonstrators have been fired on, tear gassed, and beaten by the those in charge of riot control. It’s hard to know the extent of this, and the Tehran chief of police has denied it, … Continue reading →
…about its takedown of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 was this: [Ukainian security official] Danilov said Iran had no choice but to admit to shooting down the plane because the facts had become apparent to Ukrainian experts on the ground and … Continue reading →
Iran finally admits what everyone already knew: that it shot down Flight 752. Iran says it was due to “human error.” And predictably, Iran also takes some talking points from the western left and accuses Trump of being the real … Continue reading →
I guess their lies had gotten too preposterous, and Iran authorities figured it would be worse to keep denying it than to finally admit it: Iranian military officials have admitted that the country “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing … Continue reading →
I’d never heard of Susan Hennessey before last night. Then I saw, via a link on Instapundit, that she’d tweeted this about this about the tragic shoot-down by Iran of a Ukrainian plane taking off from Tehran airport: 176 completely … Continue reading →
Some people have advanced a theory to explain Iran’s failure to do damage to US personnel in Iraq in this latest attack: the Iranians missed on purpose. Well, maybe. But others strongly disagree: The top US general made clear Wednesday … Continue reading →
It’s an awful thing to see photos and read about so many lives snuffed out. And most of them appear to have been young. The list at the link has a Canadian focus because it’s a Canadian paper, but that … Continue reading →
Last night I did something I don’t often do – I watched a few minutes of television news coverage. In this case it involved what was going on in Iraq at the hands of the Iranians. I had planned on … Continue reading →
[UPDATE: Evidence accumulates that the plane was shot down, although it’s certainly still not known.] As if things weren’t bad enough yesterday, there’s this: …176 people including 63 Canadians died in a plane crash near Tehran, with Iran blaming an … Continue reading →
And that’s one of Iran’s problems these days. From Victor Davis Hanson: Snce World War II, the United States has been involved in a series of crises and wars in the Middle East on the premise of protecting U.S., Western, … Continue reading →
Lieberman on Trump’s taking out Iran’s chief terrorist: “This is very clear from the Constitution and common sense,” former Senator Joe Lieberman said on Fox News, “that if a president decides to take action like this he doesn’t have to … Continue reading →
How many people are aware that Trump’s threat to destroy 52 sites important to Iran was a response to a specific threat by Iran? Here’s what a prominent Iranian general had said just previously: [Gen. Gholamali] Abuhamzeh, commander of the … Continue reading →