Iran admits ‘disastrous mistake’: Its military accidentally shot down Flight 752

A senior officer of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, speaking on state television on Saturday, said an air defence operator had mistaken the Ukrainian passenger jet for a cruise missile.

“We were at that time ready for an all-out war with the United States. We had reports of cruise missiles fired at Iran. The air defence operator sent a message to his commanders, but after he didn’t receive any response for 10 seconds, he decided to shoot it down.” Asked why Flight 752 was allowed to take off, Mr. Sosnovskyi pointed out that planes departed from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport before and after the Ukrainian Airlines plane, and that they had received no warnings about the military activity earlier that night.

Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne told reporters Friday night Ottawa is anxious to deploy officials on the ground, but that as of his Friday evening only two visas to enter Iran had been received. A team of 10 officials from the department of Global Affairs is standing by in Ankara, waiting for admission to Iran so they can help identify victims and provide consular services.

Hello, could you please tell us more about Trudeau's beard. We could really use another article on that. Perhaps a counter to the 'exfoliate' opinion piece. That would be so interesting.

Whenever I say it's hypocritical to criticize US military policy when while leaning on them for security the standard response: 'No one would attack us, the whole world would stop them.' Well, this is what it looks like to be attacked and know there's nothing we can do about it.

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Sickens me how some media ppl used this horrific tragedy to try and make Trudeau look bad because some of his press appearances were delayed because he had to deal with the aftermath of this mess. They owe him an apology imo!

What are Canadian intelligence agencies are doing,

You still can't get it right, THEY SHOT DOWN THE PLANE

It was 63 Canadians reported previously.

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