Iran admits accidentally shooting down Ukrainian airliner:

[tblue37]

https://apnews.com/21f4a92a2dfbc38581719664bdf6f38e

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Saturday acknowledged that its armed forces “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible.

The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on two military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an American airstrike in Baghdad. No one was wounded in the attack on the bases.

A military statement carried by state media said the plane was mistaken for a “hostile target” after it turned toward a “sensitive military center” of the Revolutionary Guard. The military was at its “highest level of readiness,” it said, amid the heightened tensions with the United States.

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Iran’s acknowledgement of responsibility was likely to renew questions of why authorities did not shut down the country’s main international airport and its airspace after the ballistic missile attack, when they feared U.S. reprisals.

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[wnylib]

1. So it's official now. No more need to speculate on

what happened or how.

Enough blame to go around. Iran for the error. Trump for creating the crisis and for his threatening rhetoric.


Such a tragedy.

[edhopper]

2. Trumps scations lead to this

he has a part of the blame.