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February 03, 2020 22: 11:40
A dripped recording of an exchange between an Iranian air traffic controller and a pilot professes to reveal that authorities instantly understood a missile had downed a Ukrainian jetliner after take-off from Tehran, killing all 176 individuals aboard, despite days of rejections.
Key points:
- Both Ukraine and Iran have actually acknowledged the credibility of the clip
- Authorities in Iran at first denied that the aircraft had been shot down
- Tehran has condemned the release of the recording as “unprofessional”
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy validated the recording’s authenticity in a report aired by a Ukrainian tv channel on Sunday night.
The head of the Iranian examination team in Tehran, Hassan Rezaeifar, acknowledged t