Iran followed the precedent in admitting that it downed the Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752, because it's impossible to cover up for long. FMTNews Iran Russia MH17
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia’s overseas propaganda channel, RT, had a telling reaction to Iran’s admission that its Revolutionary Guards Corps had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian civilian airliner last week.
The “deny, deny, deny” strategy employed by Russia in the MH17 case is an exception rather than a general rule. What Iran did is far more typical. In 1990, the last Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, apologised to South Korea, but the consequences of the incident weren’t limited to a worsening of the already chilly Soviet-Korean and Soviet-US relations.
In a speech to the United Nations Security Council, then-vice president George H W Bush shifted the blame. Outside Iran, too, the US came off as trigger-happy and insensitive — one of many strikes against its trustworthiness in the Middle East. So, precedent called for Iran to admit downing Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752; something like that was impossible to cover up for long even in a less technologically advanced world.
Iran’s decision to take the blame wrong-footed the propagandists, drawing the unusually revealing reaction from Simonyan, but also got independent commentators in Russia overly excited about the example Iran presented for the Russian leadership. But, even worse, it would mean admitting that the Russian military isn’t particularly competent and the weapons systems Russia has been peddling throughout the world allow for horrible errors like the downing of MH17.
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