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I bet THIS won’t playing out 24/7 on CNN. And I doubt Nico the Clown and friends will be hovering over this story like vultures out for lunch.

While they are busy picking and chewing and pulling at the body of the dead in Iran, they won’t “have time” to notice the hundreds upon hundreds lying dead in Gaza.

In more news of death, dozens of bodies are being held in various places in Tehran while frightened families are forced to run from one hospital to the next and one prison to the next.

168 people were killed in Iran after a plane crashed 16 minutes after take-off on its way to Armenia. Eight members of Iran’s national junior judo team were on the plane, along with two of their coaches.

A history of recent crashes in Iran:

November 27th, 2006: 38 dead

December 6th, 2005: 110 

February 10th, 2004: 45 dead

February 19th, 2003: 276 dead

December 23rd, 2002: 46 dead

Ironically, NO ONE has EVER been held accountable for hundreds of deaths. No ONE has lifted a finger, no resignations were heard of. NO ONE from the ministry of transportation (which is in charge of the airlines) has EVER been forced to utter their regret or apology.

Just five months ago the minister of transportation, Hamid Behbahani said: “We have worked extensively on the safety of our vehicles. There have been minor burnings and blasts [!!] but no major damage.”

Iranians have already begun planning for the burial of the victims. The anger is of unimaginable proportions.

As one blogger wrote:

Ahmadinejad, while expressing his deep sorrow over the crash blamed the evil hands of the British for the accident. He added: “some terrible dust and dirt [Ahmadinejad refered to the protesters as dust and dirt two days after the election] got in the sky and created fog around the plane and caused it to come crashing to the ground.” He stressed that this dust and dirt had gotten in the air as a result of provocations by the BBC and other foreign news outlets and ordered the revolutionary guard to go out and use guns, knives and batons to rid the streets of these foreign agents.

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Also read: “Indiscriminate US Sanctions Resulted in Crash” from Tehran Bureau.