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| The Latest: Ukraine leader doesn’t rule out missile in crash | |
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| TEHRAN, Iran — The latest on Iran-related developments (all times local): | TEHRAN, Iran — The latest on Iran-related developments (all times local): |
| 11:20 a.m. | |
| The Ukrainian president says he is not ruling out the possibility that the plane which crashed earlier this week in Iran had been hit a by a missile. | |
| “The missile theory is not ruled out, but it has not been confirmed yet,” Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a Facebook post Friday. All 176 people on board the plane bound for Ukraine died. | |
| Zelenskiy reiterated his call for “all international partners” — the U.S., Britain and Canada in particular — to share data and evidence relevant to the crash. | |
| He also announced plans to discuss the investigation with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday afternoon. | |
| Western leaders have said the plane appeared to have been unintentionally hit by a surface-to-air missile near Tehran hours after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two U.S. bases in Iraq to avenge the killing of its top general in an American airstrike. | |
| Iranian officials have ruled out a missile attack but have invited the U.S. accident-investigating agency to take part in the investigation. | |
| 10:10 a.m. | 10:10 a.m. |
| Iranian authorities have given Ukrainian investigators access to the fragments of the plane that crashed earlier this week and they were examined late Thursday, according to a statement by the Ukrainian president’s office. | Iranian authorities have given Ukrainian investigators access to the fragments of the plane that crashed earlier this week and they were examined late Thursday, according to a statement by the Ukrainian president’s office. |
| “It is too early on in the investigation to reveal specific details,” the statement says. | “It is too early on in the investigation to reveal specific details,” the statement says. |
| The president’s office also says DNA is being collected from relatives of Ukrainians who died in the crash in order to identify the bodies. | The president’s office also says DNA is being collected from relatives of Ukrainians who died in the crash in order to identify the bodies. |
| Iran has invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed and killed all 176 people on board, state media reported Friday. | Iran has invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed and killed all 176 people on board, state media reported Friday. |
| 9 a.m. | 9 a.m. |
| Iran has invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week at a time of soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran, killing all 176 people on board, state media reported Friday. | Iran has invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week at a time of soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran, killing all 176 people on board, state media reported Friday. |
| The move came after Western leaders said the plane appeared to have been unintentionally hit by a surface-to-air missile near Tehran hours after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two U.S. bases in Iraq to avenge the killing of its top general in an American airstrike. | The move came after Western leaders said the plane appeared to have been unintentionally hit by a surface-to-air missile near Tehran hours after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two U.S. bases in Iraq to avenge the killing of its top general in an American airstrike. |
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