Exclusive: 'Grieving nations' to discuss legal action against Iran over downed airliner - Ukraine

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Five nations whose citizens died when an airliner was shot down by Iran last wee...

SINGAPORE - Five nations whose citizens died when an airliner was shot down by Iran last week will meet in London on Thursday to discuss possible legal action, Ukraine’s foreign minister told Reuters.

Prystaiko said suggestions from Iran that the Ukrainian International Airlines plane was downed as it flew near a sensitive military base during a time of heightened tensions were “nonsense”. He said Tehran had agreed to hand over the plane’s black boxes to Kiev for investigation. Tehran said its air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq, and that the airliner was mistaken for a “hostile target” after it turned toward a sensitive military base of the elite Revolutionary Guards near Tehran.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, in a rare step, apologized to the nation and accepted full responsibility. Senior Guards commander Amirali Hajizadeh said he had informed Iran’s authorities on Wednesday about the unintentional strike, a comment that raised questions about why officials had publicly denied it for so long.“What we don’t want is somebody like the soldier, very low level, to be pointed and told that that is the guy who pushed the button...

 

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Iran knew darn well this was a civilian aircraft. Iran intentionally shot this aircraft down to cause tensions between each of us. It is the world’s duty to collaborate and hold them responsible. We should never be bullied by them!

Trump created this

जब जालिम लड़ते है, जान मासूमो की जाती है। Please stop this act of tyranny.

Not a chance in hell, just as did not happen when US shot down an Iranian airliner.

don't forget tiny 'd' who precipated crisis setting in action hair trigger situation that led to mistake. Same 'worry' nuke nations have always worried about with loose cannons like draft dodger tiny 'd'

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