Yesterday, the Iranian government told the world that one of its veteran senior generals, General Ghodratollah Mansouri, a regional commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) in the important city of Mashhad, had died of an accident that supposedly happened while he was cleaning his gun.  So far as I have been able to discover using a couple of search engines, this claim has been reported without skepticism or comment by the world's leading news agencies and outlets.  Even Israeli outlets. Here is the tweet by which Iran made this claim: , the commander of Samen Al Aeme headquarters was shot in the head by mistake and killed while cleaning his own gun.https://t.co/8ns0kaF2JU pic.twitter.com/xNMfi69Nys — Iran International English (@iranintl_eng) December 16, 2018     I am sorry, but I do not take anything the government of Iran claims at face value.  For one thing, how likely is it that a general...(Read Full Post)