TEHRAN-(MaraviPost)-Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani is reported to have insisted his government tells the country the truth and admit their mistake while his army officials expressed concerns that the truth would plunge the country in disarray.
President Rouhani therefore warned that he’d resign if the truth will not be told to the nation.
True to the concerns of Rouhani’s officials, protests broke out in Iran when the news broke that the military had shot down the plane that killed nearly 200 people, many of them Iranians.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei got a message to the military, ordering a public statement acknowledging what the truth of what happened.
There were calls for the president’s resignation, even though he has currently remained in power essentially on a caretaker capacity, having stepped down from his position as president last year as a result of massive protest calling for him to step down.
A series of communication flops is said to have induced an officer into firing missiles at the plane, believing it was a hostile U.S. aircraft. The IRGC immediately began to cover their tracks when they realized their deathly mistake, going as far as keeping the truth from the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Iran had launched a barrage of rocket missiles at an Iraqi air force station housing members of the US army in retaliatory attacks for the killing of their top general and shadow commander, Soleimani by the US military on January 3rd 2020.
US president had assured a ‘decisive’ response if Iran or Iraq threatened American lives or American interests.
The heightened apprehension of what may follow the air force base assault undoubtedly left Iran’s commands with jittery fingers on a trigger.
After the Ukrainian airliner was mistakenly shot down by Iran’s military, Iran’s president was reportedly kept in the dark for days as ranking officers deflected his curiosity about what actually happened to the Boeing 737 that was bound for Kiev from Tehran.
The Times magazine reports that the Iranian president was furious when he was eventually informed about what truly happened.
