Reuters Adnan Abidi
Mohammed Jawad Zarif
Tehran denied the news that a leak was recorded in which Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested the possibility of deliberately shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane early last year due to a sabotage operation.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Said Khatib Zadeh told reporters today, Wednesday, that what was stated in the news published by the Canadian CBC channel are nothing but “incorrect allegations that cannot be relied upon,” stressing that many of the statements attributed to Zarif in this news “are fundamentally inconsistent.” With his literature, the claim of the existence of such an audio tape is incorrect. “
Khatib Zadeh acknowledged that Zarif, in his contacts in the weeks following the Boeing incident, stressed the need to discuss all possible possibilities about the causes and circumstances of the disaster, including the possibility of external electronic interference or the presence of sabotage elements.
The spokesman urged the Canadian authorities to “stop increasing the grief of the families of the 176 victims of the disaster by spreading rumors and politicizing the issue,” adding: “We advise the Canadian government to act in a professional manner instead of fruitless disputes, and if it has an opinion, it should present it in the form of a specialized report on the incident.” .
Khatibah Zadeh expressed the Iranian government’s firm commitment to its international obligations and the rights of the families of the victims of the disaster, adding that Tehran “implements its international obligations and requirements step by step in line with domestic and international laws.”
The Iranian authorities admitted, a week after the “Ukrainian Boeing, which had dozens of Canadians on board, crashed on January 8, 2020, that the plane was shot down by mistake, shortly after it took off from Tehran airport, while it was flying over a military site belonging to the Revolutionary Guard, at the height of the escalation.” Between Tehran and Washington in the region.
Source: Faris
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