“We have data from various sources, including our allies and our own intelligence. Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian ground-to-air missile, he said at a news conference.
Earlier media reported that the US authorities believe that the Ukrainian plane was accidentally shot down by Iran.
The head of the Iranian civil aviation organization Ali Abedzade said that the version that the plane was shot down by a rocket “cannot be true under any circumstances.”
According to him, at the same time and at the same altitude, several Iranian and foreign aircraft flew.
On January 8, the Boeing 737 crashed shortly after taking off in the Iranian capital. The victims of the crash were 176 people.