• Iran: Ukraine includes demolition by a missile among the possible causes of the plane crash in Iran
  • Sinister: The 176 occupants of the crashed Ukrainian plane in Iran die

The doubts about the reasons for Wednesday's air tragedy have put it in the focus of more and more countries. After the doubts publicly filed by Ukraine, which pointed to the possibility that a projectile would demolish the device during its takeoff phase, now the 'Newsweek' media, citing US and Iraqi intelligence sources, delves into the possibility. He clarifies that the demolition was "probably by mistake" , on the same tense night that Iranian missiles hit a base in Iraq.

Flight 752 of Ukraine International Airlines, a Boeing 737-800, departed an hour late from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in southwest Tehran, heading for Kiev. Approximately eight minutes later, according to a domestic video, the plane crashed with a burning flank in a rural area near the residential area of ​​Parand. According to Iranian media, the pilot did not give an emergency call and it seems that he tried to redirect the course to return to the airport.

According to 'Newsweek', which quotes a source from the Pentagon, another from US intelligence and a third from the Iraqi, all anonymous, it is believed that the Boeing was shot down by a Soviet anti-aircraft battery type Tor-M1 , known in the NATO code as Gauntlet. His theory is based on satellite images, radar signals and electronic data collected that night, hours after an Iranian attack, with at least 12 missiles, on the Iraqi military base of Al Assad.

The 176 people traveling on board, most of them Iranian, and most of them destined for Canada, died in the air disaster, addressed in the Iranian press as a "technical failure . " In fact, that was the first version of the Ukrainian embassy, ​​which he later withdrew. According to Reuters, the initial advice of several Western Intelligence agencies, including the Canadian and the US, indicated that the plane was not shot down by a missile, but had suffered a technical problem.

According to the Fars agency, Ali Abedzadeh , head of the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran - who had invited Canada and Sweden to cooperate with the investigation of the event - has responded to this information that "it is scientifically impossible and illogical that a missile I shot down that plane. Several domestic and international flights were flying around at the same time. " He has also emphasized that there is "complete coordination" between the civil and military aviation sectors.

This Wednesday, the secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danylov said that investigators in his country, among whom there are participants in the investigations after the demolition of flight MH17 in 2014, wanted to go to the area of ​​the fall of the device to collect possible parts of a Russian missile, detected, he said, in images of the site of the incident. The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, asked in a statement to avoid conspiracy theories and await crash assessments.

After the wave of maximum tension on Wednesday, and in a rare display of diplomacy -Canada cut off its diplomatic relations with Iran in 2012-, Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne , spoke Thursday with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif . Canadian sources say the minister "stressed the need for Canadian officials to go to Iran for the necessary tasks of investigation, consular assistance and identification of the bodies."

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