All 176 passengers and crew on board the Ukrainian Airlines flight died in the crash.
Rouzbeh Mirembrahimi, a consultant with the United Nations and an independent Iran analyst based in the U.S., told"This tragedy undermines the image Iran has cultivated as a military power and weakened it significantly both regionally and internationally."on a condition of anonymity that they believed an Iranian missile system had shot down the Ukraine flight by mistake.
In"such a sensitive and critical situation" the Ukraine Airlines flight"moved very close to a sensitive military spot" belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, it said. The"altitude and the direction of the flight's movement were like an enemy target," the statement read. He tweeted:"Armed Forces' internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired due to human error caused the horrific crash of the Ukrainian plane & death of 176 innocent people.Rescue teams work amidst debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board."My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families.
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