iran shoots down plane

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 (PS752) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Tehran to Kiev operated by Ukraine International Airlines (UIA). Under these circumstances, the aircraft was unintentionally hit, which unfortunately resulted in death of the many Iranian and foreign nationals," the statement reads.The victims include 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans and three British nationals. A security camera captured the impact, which sent burning debris flying across a wide swath.Images that circulated Wednesday appeared to show fragments of a Tor M-1 missile said to have been found in a suburb of Tehran.Ukraine Security Council secretary Oleksiy Danylov said Thursday that contact with a Tor M-1 system was among the possible causes for the plane’s crash. "Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster," Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted.

All 176 passengers and crew were killed; it was the first air accident involving Ukraine International Airlines which included fatalities not of its own making. Three visas were issued for members of Canada's Standing Rapid Deployment Team (SRDT), Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters.The SRDT is a unit of specialized officials deployed to work with Canada's embassies and consulates abroad in providing critical services to Canadians during emergencies, according to the Canadian government. A US official familiar with the intelligence said the aircraft was downed by two Russian-made SA-15 surface-to-air missiles. They hold aloft a drawing depicting the incident. That prohibition is due to longstanding sanctions rather than the most recent events, according to two US officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Friday that Trump was authorizing yet more sanctions on Iran.Iran admits to shooting down Ukrainian passenger plane Iran admits to shooting down Ukrainian passenger plane 'Unprecedented' protests erupt in Belarus following electionCNN's Arwa Damon reports from the site of the explosion in Beirut The 'Lebanese Tiger' on Beirut blast: What you see on TV is nothing compared to realitySee the scene in Beirut as protesters call for a 'revolution' Plane overshoots runway and crashes in southern IndiaWatch posing tourist snap toes off 19th-century statueFrench President Macron: No blank checks will be givenEngland starts lockdown the night before Muslim holidayHow 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate ended up in BeirutThe Lebanese economy was already in free fall.

Iran had previously denied US claims that the country had struck down the plane accidentally. But due to sanctions imposed on Iran, there are additional challenges, according to the Washington Post.Government agencies, including the NTSB, must obtain a license from the Office of Foreign Assets Control to be allowed to travel to the country, a process that experts say can take months or even years.Meanwhile, a Ukrainian plane carrying 45 experts and search-and-rescue personnel arrived in Tehran on Thursday to take part in the probe as well as identify and repatriate the bodies of the 11 Ukrainians aboard. "Those who refer to the number 52 should also remember the number 290. They were expected to arrive in Tehran on Saturday.Rouhani told Trudeau he was committed "to collaborate, to give closure to the victims, deescalate tensions in the region and continue this dialogue," the Canadian Prime Minister said. More than 30 victims came from Alberta, mostly from the Edmonton area, per the Payman Parseyan, the former president of Edmonton’s Iranian Heritage Society, “Initially, it was three names, and even with three names, we were getting goosebumps because they were our community members,” Parseyan said. Th… Iran Press TV video shows fiery aftermath of Ukrainian plane crash in Iran Trump told reporters on Thursday he had “suspicions” the plane might have been mistakenly shot down… What we know about the Iran plane crash that killed 176 people – video report The Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday was accidentally shot down … By signing up you are agreeing to our #IR655 Never threaten the Iranian nation," he said in a tweet.The number 52 refers to the number of sites US President Donald Trump threatened to target in Iran if Tehran retaliated for the For more than a year, the US Navy had been committed to protecting commercial shipping moving through the Persian Gulf endangered by the so-called "tanker war," an offshoot of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.Iran had been trying to block resupply of Iraq through the waters of the Persian Gulf, laying mines and firing rockets at ships.The fog of war showed itself in 1987, when an Iraqi warplane mistook the frigate USS Stark for an Iranian tanker and fired two missiles at it. World Video and photo footage from the site of the crash show rescue workers sorting through burned belongings and plane fragments.The aircraft had 176 people on board, including passengers from around the world. Hassan Rouhani stressed that Iran would provide the Ukrainian expert group with prompt access to all the necessary data.”Also Thursday, Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne spoke by phone with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and emphasized that Canada, which lost 63 nationals in the crash, wants to be part of the investigation.Because Boeing planes are manufactured and certified in the US, American officials have the right to take part in the investigation under international rules. "A mass vigil commemorating the victims of the doomed flight escalated into an angry demonstration following the government admission, according to Iran's semiofficial FARS News Agency. "The aircraft came close to a sensitive IRGC military center at an altitude and flight condition that resembled hostile targeting. By Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300 with 290 people on board, was blown from the skies by a missile fired from the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes as it flew over the Persian Gulf from Iran to Dubai on July 3, 1988.Rouhani used that 290 number in a Twitter post on January 6. Rouhani in a statement released by his office earlier Saturday echoed those sentiments. "The perpetrators must be held accountable. My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families," President Hassan Rouhani said.