Iran has on Friday rejected
emerging claims that Tehran unintentionally shot down a Ukrainian airliner
heading to Kiev.
Ali Abedzadeh, Head of the
country’s Civil Aviation Department, said it was impossible for such a thing to
have happened.
The Ukrainian International
Airlines flight PS752 bound for Kyiv, its capital, crashed minutes after
takeoff from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran.
The plane plunged to the ground
shortly after Iran attacked US bases with over 15 missiles. All the 176
passengers and crew on board the plane were killed.
British Prime Minister, Boris
Johnson had said that there is now a “body of information” that the airliner,
which crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran, was shot down by an Iranian
missile
Also, Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau made a similar claim, revealing that it was actually Iran’s
missile that shot down the Ukrainian airliner with 176 passengers on board
But reacting to the claims, which
America also supported, Abedzadeh said, “As I said, based on the law, there is
full coordination between our air defence and and our civil [aviation] system.
Our civil aviation personnel and air defence personnel sit side by side, so it
is absolutely impossible for such a thing [shooting down a passenger plane] to
happen,” according to Al Jazeera.
Meanwhile, Iranian state
television on Friday showed footage purportedly of the two black boxes
recovered from the crashed Ukrainian airliner.
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