Much of that behaviour, Mr. Shipley, is laid out in some considerable detail in the report I filed. I won't get into all that detail, but I'll give you a few examples.
Iran was launching missile attacks at U.S. positions in Iraq in the early morning of January 8, 2020. The Iranians say they conducted a risk assessment—this is in their final report—to determine whether any particular action should be taken to protect civil aviation in Iran. They took some actions to control air travel in the far west part of the country, where it borders Iraq, but the air space over the bulk of Iran had no restrictions or limitations whatsoever. The only change they made was to have the military involved in decisions as to whether or not a flight would be cleared to take off. That's the only safety measure they implemented. Otherwise, they said, the skies over Tehran were safe as normal on that morning.
That was clearly a flawed risk assessment. Obviously, they did not anticipate the circumstances that occurred, and yet they say in their report that if they had to do it over again, they would come to the same conclusion. Clearly, that was an incredibly incompetent behaviour to produce a risk assessment that was so fundamentally flawed.
Then, knowing the risk, knowing that they had launched missiles, knowing that retaliation was expected, knowing that they had positioned those mobile missile launchers around Tehran, including by the airport, they didn't bother to close the airspace over the airport. They didn't bother to alert the airline companies to the fact that there was danger in those skies and that there were missile operators in a position, quite literally, with their fingers over the triggers, ready and able to shoot down civilian aircraft.
That's just a bit of the flavour of this horrendous conduct. They were, in my opinion, incredibly incompetent. They were reckless, and they showed a wanton disregard for human life.