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Arrests made over Ukrainian airliner shooting: Iranian judiciary


TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday announced that it has arrested “some people” over the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet in Tehran last week.”Extensive investigations have been carried out and some people have been arrested,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told a televised news conference. However, he did not specify how many people were arrested.The arrests are the first to have been announced since the Ukraine International Airlines plane was brought down by a missile shortly after takeoff from Tehran before dawn on Wednesday.After initially denying Western claims it was shot down, Iran came clean on Saturday and admitted the plane …read more

Source:: Geo TV

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