It's actually quite different compared to all other examples (Iraq, Syria, Tunesia, Egypt, Lybia) as these were all quite secular countries led by a dictator. Iran however is a religious state and that change didn't happen recently in other countries.

Define Rogue State.
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used this term to describe the United States.
https://www.amazon.com/Rogue-States-.../dp/0896086119

and I'm using it to describe Iran.

So apparently you believe this was a deliberate act on the part of the Iranian government? Care to share your proof?

Some good news on a Sunday, at least. Somehow I doubt he'll keep to his word though.

Is sheer incompetence the same as deliberate?

Don‘t think the passengers on the Ukraine flight really gave a toss which it was. The net result was the same.

What's your point? This was about Baboon's statement.

He‘s only flounced because he‘s got his knickers in a twist through (wilfully?) misinterpreting that people support Iran and ‘hate‘ Trump then argued himself into a corner.

My point is that to the people that really matter in all this; the ones blown up over the Iranian countryside, whether it was deliberate or accidental is irrelevant.

Of course, and we all understand that and the same counts for any use of violence against innocent people.

When he writes:
Then yes.

Your crystal ball is on fire today. Sure enough he’s back, dragging this thread over to the brexit thread.

I'm sure that president Trump, the American and the Iranian people will find the concern you have expressed for them touching.
Incidentally, where did you learn your English ?

Nobody got 16 years for burning a flag, there was much more to the story that the sensationalist rubbish headline.

Tom

Nevertheless, it illustrates an arbitrary system of justice where a relatively trivial act, that of burning a flag, can be escalated to a "hate crime" and lead to draconian penalties.

Source: https://nypost.com/2019/12/20/iowa-m...d-to-16-years/

So please do share with us what exactly Iran is doing differently since the murder, so far as I can see there is zero change.
For example, the tragic deaths and injuries of US service members in Afghanistan.

Edit; Eight Katyusha rockets hit Iraq’s Balad Air Base today, wounding four Iraqi air force officers, according to a statement released by the Iraqi military.

Will never happen in the EU; EU flags are made of fireproof materials.
There are some videos around of clowns trying to set them alight.
https://youtu.be/TQRg7wH_FC0

The comments are hilarious. It's like he intended to play in a parody, only it was dead serious...

No, it doesn't. It represents a nutter with a long history of hate crimes finally getting his come-uppence. The flag-burning is nothing more than a side show in his story.