ROGER KIMBALL ON Iran and the Ukrainian Flight 752 shootdown:

Aristotle identified four sorts of causation: formal, material, efficient, and final. Iran’s foreign minister has just introduced a fifth category, akin to what some specialists call the Chewbacca defense: rather than offer a rational and compelling explanation one instead resorts to “intentional distraction or obfuscation.”

It's the coverup. It's always the coverup.