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| Iran 'mistakenly shot down Ukraine jet' - US media | Iran 'mistakenly shot down Ukraine jet' - US media |
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| Iran mistakenly shot down the Ukrainian plane that crashed on Wednesday near Tehran with 176 people on board, US media report. | Iran mistakenly shot down the Ukrainian plane that crashed on Wednesday near Tehran with 176 people on board, US media report. |
| US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile, CBS says. | US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile, CBS says. |
| Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft - but Iran ruled this out. | Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft - but Iran ruled this out. |
| The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq. | The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq. |
| CBS News quoting US intelligence said a satellite detected infrared "blips" of two missile launches, followed by another blip of an explosion. | CBS News quoting US intelligence said a satellite detected infrared "blips" of two missile launches, followed by another blip of an explosion. |
| Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted a Pentagon and a senior US intelligence officials, as well as an Iraqi intelligence official as saying they believed the Ukrainian plane was hit by a Russian-made Tor missile. | |
| US President Donald Trump on Thursday said "I have my suspicions" over the plane. "Somebody could have made a mistake," he said. | |
| Amid tensions heightened by the US killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on 3 January, Iran has said it will not hand over the recovered black box flight recorders to Boeing, the plane's manufacturer, or to the US. | |
| Under global aviation rules Iran has the right to lead the investigation, but manufacturers are typically involved. |