Juno News - January 11, 2020


We can't trust the Iranian regime

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Qasem Soleimani Justin Trudeau
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4 minutes

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174.76

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747

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47

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1

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4

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9

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The Iranian regime is doing everything to cover up the fact that a plane carrying 63 Canadian citizens was shot down by an Iranian spy, and Iran is doing all they can to cover it up. This is not the first time the Iranian regime has messed with Canada, and it s not the last time they have messed with us.

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00:00:00.000 These past few days have served as a wake-up call to many Canadians, a reminder to just how atrocious 0.92
00:00:12.840 and wretched the Iranian regime in Tehran is. Something Iranian-Canadian dissidents have been 0.98
00:00:19.060 trying to make us understand for years. First, we had the killing of Qasem Soleimani, and a lot of
00:00:25.620 people just hadn't really heard of the guy before, maybe heard the name mentioned in passing, and then
00:00:30.920 we had a learning opportunity to actually appreciate who this guy is and what he was doing. A senior agent
00:00:39.000 of the state who had a terror cell, the Quds Force, where he went around the region and basically
00:00:44.720 destabilized as many countries as he could, running various proxy wars. This is atrocious, and it opened
00:00:51.940 our eyes wide that this was happening, not clandestinely in Iran, but one of their most 0.89
00:00:57.160 prominent figures was behind all of this. So when people call Iran a terror regime, a state sponsor
00:01:03.820 of terror and all of that, you understand just how real it really is. Now we're seeing with the plane
00:01:10.760 crash, Iran is just being absolutely awful in how they respond to all of this. Prime Minister Justin
00:01:17.920 Trudeau and other leaders, England as well, stepping forward saying, we've got evidence that says that
00:01:22.780 this was not a technical malfunction, that the plane was shot down, most likely by accident. Iran
00:01:28.560 immediately doing a cover-up. As soon as the plane went down, they said, well, it was a technical
00:01:34.340 malfunction, but you haven't seen the black box, and you say that the cockpit didn't speak to any air
00:01:39.740 traffic controllers. How on earth can you say that? They said that immediately. And then we had Ukrainian 1.00
00:01:44.780 authorities and other aviation experts begin to push back and say, right now, the cause is unknown.
00:01:50.560 And now, evidence points to the fact the plane was shot down. What is Iran doing? Well, there was hope 1.00
00:01:56.500 that they would go, okay, fine, we'll be honest here. Uh-uh. Now they are pushing back, demanding Canada
00:02:02.980 release its evidence. They're being cagey with what they're going to do with this black box. They seem to
00:02:07.680 just want to keep it to themselves. One Iranian representative even said, a spokesman for the government,
00:02:13.680 saying that accusations that the plane was shot down is psychological warfare being waged by the West
00:02:20.440 against Iran. Are you kidding me? This is not the way a normal country speaks. This is not a way a normal 0.70
00:02:27.500 country operates. Now, some people have been aware of this with Iran for many years, but other observers
00:02:32.720 go, wow, really? And we're really beginning to appreciate just how wretched this regime is. This is far from the
00:02:39.980 first time that they have messed with Canada. Back in 2009, a Canadian photographer went and photographed
00:02:48.820 wives outside of the notorious Evin prison. So women just going there in front of the prison because 1.00
00:02:54.440 their husbands were being detained there. It's a notorious prison where there is torture, where
00:02:58.680 there are people executed. All that she did, this Canadian woman, take photographs. Then she was detained.
00:03:05.460 She was tortured, raped, beaten, and murdered in this prison. What did the Iranian government do?
00:03:12.980 They tried to issue documents from bogus coroners saying, oh, she died of a stroke. They gave us the
00:03:18.900 runaround. They refused to give good answers to all of this. And they basically engaged in a cover-up
00:03:25.400 of a Canadian woman that they killed in one of their prisons. Iran is an atrocious regime, 1.00
00:03:31.480 a horrible regime. There's a lot of awful stuff going on right now. And these 63 Canadian citizens 1.00
00:03:37.400 killed in this plane crash. It's very tragic stuff. And I don't want to say if something good could come
00:03:42.620 of this because that is not the right way to frame this because there's nothing good coming out of
00:03:46.440 this, although the death of Soleimani actually is a good thing. But this situation, this episode we are
00:03:52.460 in right now, it's really driving home just how wretched this regime is and how Canadians need to
00:03:59.280 be tough with them. We need to not put up with their PR statements, their nonsense, their insults 0.83
00:04:04.800 to us. And we need to keep this with us now in this moment as we deal with getting to the answers
00:04:10.740 of this plane crash. And we need to keep this in mind in the years ahead as we deal with this
00:04:15.460 noxious regime.