"An Iranian plane carrying 168 passengers crashed before midday in the suburbs of the city of Qazvin, some 75 miles northwest of Tehran, on route to the Armenian capital, Yerevan"
It was 1 pm when I heard the heart- rending news about the death of nearly 170 passengers in the worst disastrous accidents of the recent years in Iran. I got teary and couldn't keep from crying , It was really terrible news, I am sure it scattered million hearts into the pieces just like the shattered aircraft .
I still believe that "air travel" is the safest means of transportation when measured to road travel accidents per kilometer. These years we are witnessing terrible accidents in the " air travel ", as we all know plane crashes would happen one in 10 million to one in 60 million(according to different statistics),
Iran is unable to buy new planes or even spare parts for the maintenance due to tough sanctions since 28 years ago, therefore Iranians have been forced to fly with planes bought before 1979, Although Iran has been handling this problem so far and even managed to manufacture some spare parts some how, nevertheless Iran has been forced to use used Russian made aircraft Tupolev ,
why western mean countries take this safe transportation right from Iranians?
To take a civil right from a nation by imposing unjustified international sanctions on them, can't be explained logically.
Although we can't expect any civilized manner from the narrow minded prejudiced western countries on top of them the USA to lift sanctions which has destructive impact on civilians, actually I think the west aim is to hurt civilians mostly , they don't really respect our civil right as an independent nation in the world, we have seen their hostile behavior so far many times, for example As an Iranian I have never forgotten downing of an Iranian passenger plane over the Persian gulf in 1988 and killing more than 260 on board without any special reason, Under which international law passenger planes can be shot over their own maritime territory? I guess none! but seems the powerful countries can destroy anything they wish ...just as simple as that!
To be fair , I don't want to blame western countries and their unfair sanctions only, but also I think that air lines and the government are faulty too, if we cant buy spare parts from western countries, at least we should be able to keep up Russians aircraft in shape , government should support airlines to spend some cash for Russian planes maintenance.
I hope that this heart wrenching accident opens new door to Iranians safer air travel,
May God bless those who died in the incident, I heard that Iranian national junior Judo team was on the board too.
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