What a dizzying week it has been which saw Iran holding the short end of the stick. They came awfully short of the bargain which they courted for. Their Qassem Soleimani was killed. They fired dozen of missiles at American military bases but couldn't kill even one American, thanks to their poor marksmanship and lack of requisite skill for precision targeting. More economic sanctions were imposed on them by President Donald John Trump. They shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane killing all 180 people on board, 130 of who are their own Iranian citizens. This is in addition to the 56 who were trampled to death during Soleimani's funeral.
They continued to deny responsibility for the shot down until they were forced to eat their humble pie by admitting that they in fact shot down the plane. Now their ever restive citizens who temporarily sided with the authorities when Soleimani was killed are now attacking them for so disastrously humiliating Iran and demanding that the Ayatollah resigned his office. A massive protest is underway in Iran but whether the leadership will once again survive is left to anybody's guess; admitted the blood thirsty ruthless enforcer Qassem Soleimani is no more around to forcefully restore order by killing as many Iranian protesters as possible.
What a PR disaster it has been for Iran as they suddenly found out that they are really not a factor in the perking order in this world, notwithstanding their unmerited arrogance to the contrary. The world will now view them harsher than they ever did for the attempted cover up of their crime of shooting down a civilian passenger plane. They literary had no credibility prior and this attempted cover up has further crashed whatever was left of it. Who will still believe anything Iran says going forward, including their denial that they do not seek nuclear weapons with their nuclear program.
Overall, the crisis left Iran bloodied, looking foolish, incompetent and poor bargainers; who traded all these smack downs just for nothing. It is a shame and it is sad; but will Russia ever be held accountable for its role in causing this mischief. They sold Iran those missiles without a care in the world if they were trained properly in how to handle them, including how to detect credible threat before recklessly shooting those missiles off into the night skies. Now, a lot of human beings have perished as a result.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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