An Iranian commander said 'I wish I could die' after Tehran accepted responsibility for shooting down Ukranian Airlines flight 752
Foto: Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA Workers inspect the debris from the Ukraine International Airlines plane, that crashed after take-off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran January 8, 2020
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard accepts full responsibility for downing Ukrainian Airlines flight 752. Iran on Saturday admitted that it shot down Ukrainian Airlines flight 752, which crashed near Tehran on Wednesday with 176 people on board.An earlier statement from Iran’s military said it shot down the plane by accident after it got close to a military base.Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has accepted full responsibility for the downing of Ukrainian Airlines flight 752, with one senior Iranian official saying he would rather have died than witness the disaster.
Amirali Hajizadeh, the Revolutionary Guard’s head of aerospace, later on Saturday said that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard accepted full responsibility for the disaster, in a video posted online by Iranian state television.Iran initially denied responsibility for the plane crash, which it sought to blame on a mechanical problem with the jet, a Boeing 737-800.
It made the admission two days after the US, Canadian, and British governments blamed the crash on an Iranian missile, citing their intelligence agencies.as a „great tragedy“ and am „unforgivable mistake.“
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