DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will continue to work with other countries in investigating the crash of a Ukrainian airliner last month and called on all parties to avoid politicizing the issue, Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization said in a statement on Tuesday.
A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month, despite denying it for days, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.
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“Iran will continue to work with other countries in investigating the crash of a Ukrainian airliner last month and called on all parties to avoid politicizing the issue”
Denying they had shot down the plane for 3 days, while lying through their teeth is not politicized?
There is only, what, 4 countries that can read those things? None are their friends so they will have to pick their poison. Zelensky is in a position to negotiate the release, or sue the shit out of them if they don’t. The politics is when they chose to let the Moskali have the box and for the reasons you accurately state.