Parvaresh’s comments clashed with those of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who stated definitively earlier in the day that a missile had brought down the Ukraine airliner
It’s simply not possible that Iran even accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner that crashed with more than 60 Canadians on board, Tehran’s ambassador for international air travel said Thursday.
“If you talk to experts, this cannot be right. Totally it is wrong, 100 per cent,” he said of the missile theory. “This is something purely technical. It was a disaster, it was a great tragedy.… What is going around is because of some political issues, the tension between Iran and the U.S.” Trudeau cited reports from Canadian and allied intelligence agencies and said he and the families of victims “want answers.” The prime minister reported earlier that 138 of the incident’s 176 victims were headed to Canada, through Kyiv.
He discounted the anti-aircraft missile possibility chiefly because of witness accounts and amateur video that suggested the plane descended rapidly, trailing flames, then struck the ground in a huge fireball.
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