Iran denies firing a missile causing the downing of a Ukrainian jet, killing 176 people.
that was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, leaving debris strewn over a huge area.
"If they are really sure, they should come and show their findings to the world in accordance with international standards," he said. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has also called for the U.S. and Canada to release any evidence they have. He said inthat the possibility that a missile was responsible for the crash"cannot be ruled out but cannot currently be confirmed."
Hassan Rezaeifar, the head of Iranian investigation team, told the same press conference in Tehran that recovering data from the black box flight recorders could take more than a month and that the entire investigation could take as long as two years. He also said Iran may request help from international experts if it is not able to extract the flight recordings.plane was not hit my a missile-all happened in 2mins.Earlier, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, as saying Iran"has invited both Ukraine and the Boeing company to participate in the investigations.
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