Iran has imprisoned the army officer who fired a missile that killed 176 on board a Ukrainian jet, Mohammad Javad Zarif has said, comparing Tehran’s actions to that of the US when it downed an Iranian airliner 32 years ago.
The downing of a Ukraine International Airlines’ Boeing 737 in early January was “a complicated situation in a complicated time,” Zarif revealed in an interview with Germany’s Spiegel magazine, when pressed into explaining why it took three days for Tehran to admit their guilt.
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