Originally posted by AminGP
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Exactly Amin jaan. I was kind of thinking out loud with my earlier post but inadvertently did not address the title of this thread.
In that there was a conspiracy here (as in a group of people conspiring with a secret plan), there's no doubt in mind. The odds of radio, TV and cell phone signals being dropped simultaneously are practically zero, because they all use different technologies.
Cutting CCTV signals into the stadium or shutting down communication towers for cell phones would have been relatively easy and could have been done on short notice, although the only entity who would have had the power to do the latter would have been Sepah.
Scrambling AM/FM radio signals is not something that would have been done without prior planning. I'm not up to date on the TV signal transmission in Iran and perhaps some of our experts can rein in on this. But I assume TV hasn't gone all digital in Iran and UHF and VHF transmissions are still well and alive.
On that note, blocking such a large band of electromagnetic transmissions and on such a large scale can only point to a well thought of and carried out plan with only one entity having both the means and motives to implement it - that would again be Sepah of course.
In that sense, this is less of a conspiracy theory and more of a conspiracy fact. But the conspiracy was not by Sepahan or Naft or the league or IFF or the even the sports ministry - it runs much higher and deeper than that.
We can only speculate as to the reasons for it, but generally speaking rioting is much more likely to happen when a particular team loses in such a manner (recall what happened in Vancouver a few years back when they lost in the Stanley Cup final).
Given some of the separatist tendencies in Azerbaijan, the regime could very well have considered an ethnic or nationalistic awakening here with such large crowds a serious threat and been prepared for every contingency.
In case of victory, there were planned celebrations inside the stadium and this would have led to the crowd dispersing slowly and over time. But this was also a double edged sword, because the crowd was expecting a win.
Those expectations were raised further after Tractor went up 3-1 after which was the point of no return. Sentiments were running high and large crowds can be extremely uncontrollable and destructive when they're frustrated and angry.
So this plan was implemented as a means of crowd control and it looks like it worked well to some extent. It's hard to form a unifying force from the midst of confusion and chaos and those few minutes in which people poured onto the field or dispersed out of the stadium, essentially divided and conquered the fans.
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