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Originally Posted by flylock shox
The problem with that is that they're not dealing with an uneducated populace full of country bumpkins who also have no personal interest in the truth of why the plane went down, and will happily swallow the government's narrative. They have a highly educated population with a direct interest in what happened to the (I think) 142 Iranian nationals who were on that plane, and with connections to the outside world including the Iranian diaspora in Canada and elsewhere.
In short, they've risked their credibility with their own population and the rest of the world by adopting what appears to be a "plausible deniability" propaganda exercise.
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The regime in Iran doesn't care what Canadians think. They hate the Iranian diaspora in Canada and around the world. They raped, tortured, and killed one such member of the diaspora, Zahra Kazemi, with impunity.
They're a regime of conservative religious fanatics who draw their support from the uneducated, rural, and the poor. I doubt those core supporters are bothered much by a bunch of Westernized traitors (in their eyes) getting blown out of the sky on their way back to their new homes. A hundred editorials in Western newspapers and a hundred campaigns on social media will be of no consequence to them.