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3 hours agoIran denies charges of crash of Ukrainian missile
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Iranian Civil Aviation Organisation chief Ali Ali Ali Abadzhah has denied today what he said was “inconsistent allegations” that a Ukrainian passenger plane crashed near Tehran was hit by a rocket, Iranian news agency semi-official reported I SNA. “From a scientific point of view, it is impossible that a rocket [...]
From a scientific point of view, it is impossible for a missile to hit a Ukrainian plane, so such rumors are illegal,” agency quoted Ali Abedzhadh as citing.
Newsweek reported earlier that an Iranian antiaircraft missile accidentally crashed a Ukrainian plane near Tehran on Wednesday morning.
A British official quoted an American official as saying that the two satellites had registered two rocket fires shortly before an explosion crashed.
Ukrainian aircraft was hit by a Russian-made Tor-M1 missile, US Newsweek reported earlier, citing unnamed Pentagon officials, as well as American and Iraqi intelligence services, broadcast Kosova Prees.
Pentagon and US intelligence officials told Newsweek that the plane was accidentally hit.
Iranian antiaircraft units are likely to be active following a missile attack on US bases in Iraq that followed in response to Iranian General Qasem Solejmani's American murder, sources said.
As a result of the plane's crash, all 167 passengers and nine crew members flying to Kiev, capital of Ukraine, lost their lives.
82 Iranians, 63 Canadians were killed, as well as citizens of Ukraine, Sweden, Afghanistan, Germany and Britain.
