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Viegas is saying the press releases from Aprilia, Andrea and the media are clearly incorrect. Why would we suspend him if we thought he was innocent ? He also speculates that if Iannone did it, it was probably for reasons other than performance enhancement. I wonder what he thinks those reasons might be.....?

This particular drug is used to a high degree in the bodybuilding world as it has properties that help during the "cutting" phase of training. It is used to create more definition in the muscle. Additionally, it aids in strength and endurance. 
In a sport where athletes are doing their best to reduce their weight and increase strength and endurance, this is a "good" choice for these athletes. 
Iannone also is motivated by his own appearance as demonstrated by numerous plastic surgeries. There may very well be a component here to look his best. 
With regard to the contaminated meat defense, in the world of body building and WWE, there are two popular defenses. The first is no defense, just silence which has the obvious result.  The second is the ingestion of contaminated meat. This defense, from my research, always results in a guilty verdict and a ban from their sport. 
Should Ianonne's verdict be any different when using the same defense?

Why did he get a nose job last year, which prevented him from testing?

I believe it was surgery on his jaw/jawline.

Nothing more for me to hear. They didn't nail him and let his "maybe Asian meat?" reduce from 4 yrs to 18mos w some free months back dated. He is making noise.

Rather wishing he had taken another backmarker or two "to dinner" with him. He got unlucky getting caught, and lucky on the sentence. Time to move on, even April 2020.

Dorna dit everything to get Romano Fenati back on the track. Why are they so harsh on Andrea Iannone. I don't think that he is a drug user. Will they make a statement ?

While I thought the ban given to Fenati was too small (effectively a six race ban) it was served in full. It's Fenati's family fortune that brought him back onto the grid, not the FIM or Dorna doing him any favours. Even if they had done him favours his career is permanently stalled regardless, no team in the top two classes is interested in the guy coming 17th in Moto 3 before considering Fenati's other baggage.

FIM are probably following legal advice to say nothing until CAS have made a ruling. Iannone's playing a dangerous game. He no doubt thinks CAS will vinidcate him, but he would do well to remember that CAS agreed with Alberto Contador that he accidentally ate steroid contaminated meat, then stripped of his results for two years and declared him guilty anyway, because those are the rules.

...made a series of mistakes which lead him to making a big one, inexcusabe, yet we have all been guilty of youth (at some time...hmmm) and luckily most of us get a chance to redeem ourselves. Hopfully Fenati goes on to demonstrate just that, only time wil tell.

18 moths to Ianonne in the Motogp world is pretty much a life sentence but there's a slim glimmer of hope, very slim but it's there. Maybe that's all that is in the 18 months. The slim possibility of redemption at the Motogp level.

Let's see what they say but i think the contaminated meat story is start to look somewhere near the, 'i was shipwrecked in a lifeboat with Ben Johnson and Lance Armstrong without fresh water and we had to drink.......there was a mix up'.

....I talked to a friend, who is VERY familiar with steroids/testing/etc., mentioned the substance Iannone tested positive for and his 'explanation' and he said, 'he's lying'. 

... riders (AKA teams) are bringing their own food and beverages to each race and only consuming from that supply? Otherwise, isn't every rider at risk of the same type of contamination?

Given the increasing likelyhood of no championship this year, he may well end up with a ban that stops him racing the first few months of 2021.