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Iran's Guards mistook Ukrainian plane for cruise missile, says official

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11:0111/01/2020, Saturday
U: 11/01/2020, Saturday
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File phto: Red Crescent workers check 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
File phto: Red Crescent workers check 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

A Ukrainian plane shot down by Iran was misidentified as a cruise missile, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Saturday in a broadcast on Iranian state television.

The plane was shot down by a short-range missile, aerospace division head Amirali Hajizadeh said.



#cruise missile
#Ukrainian plane
#Revolutionary Guards
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