Iran arrests suspects in plane shootdown, promises special court to investigate

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'The whole world will be watching our trial’: In first televised comments, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the investigation must be 'explained to people honestly’

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A handout picture provided by the official website of the Iranian Presidency on January 14, 2020, shows President Hassan Rouhani speaking during a meeting with farmers in Tehran. Rouhani said that everyone responsible for the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner last week must be punished.

“It’s not just the one who pressed the button. There are others, and I want this matter to be explained to people honestly…. The whole world will be watching our trial.”A spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, Gholamhossein Esmaili, told Iranian media that “a number of people” have been arrested in the past 72 hours in connection with the airplane shootdown, and “extensive investigations” are underway. He did not give any details.

The protestors have criticized the government for denying the military shootdown for three days after it happened, and for failing to close Iranian airports and air space at a time when Iran was firing missiles at U.S. targets and anticipating a retaliation. He promised the establishment of a special court to investigate the shootdown, headed by a judge and staffed by dozens of experts.

 

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I wonder which poor soul is going to be the scapegoat for their own wrong doing... there is no order in that country

It’s a cover up, they know the left wing media will run with it

Special court? Firing squad

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