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Originally Posted by peter12
Unreal. I just can't figure out how people choose to judge the two countries as being morally the same. Your original statement was wrong. You may quibble with the source, but it disproves your central point that American precedent was to deny anything had happened.
If the Americans had done what the Iranians have done, they would have blamed it on technical difficulties and then refused any outside investigation. Instead an international body was allowed to come to the proper conclusions.
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Except that denying anything had happened appears to have been exactly what the US initially did. Then they gave a goobered up explanation. Then they acknowledged what happened.
Iran is just at stage 2. It remains to be seen whether they'll make it all the way to acceptance, but I think it's just a matter of time.
Basically, as afc notes, it's essentially the same situation all over again. The big difference this time is that Iran basically shot itself in the foot and shares in the loss to a large extent.