Javad Soleimani: The question is why did they "deliberately" shoot down the passenger plane?
Javad Soleimani, the wife of one of the victims of the downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane, asked in his Twitter post, "Why did they deliberately down the passenger plane?"
On Tuesday, June 4, Javad Soleimani posted a video on his Twitter page, writing that "the question is not whether the downing of the Ukrainian plane was intentional or accidental. The question is, "Why did they deliberately down a passenger plane?"
Referring to the specifications of the IRGC's Tor M1 defense system, he wrote that "even a two-eyed animal can distinguish between a cruise missile and a Boeing 800 Series passenger plane!!"
In a video released by Mr. Soleimani, he said that IRGC affiliates had attempted to destroy the pilots' voice recorder in the plane's black box.
On the morning of Wednesday, January 8, a Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane with 176 people on board was shot down by the air defenses of the Revolutionary Guard Corps after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport on the outskirts of Tehran. After days of insistence by Iranian officials that the plane had crashed due to a technical malfunction, the IRGC finally announced that it had mistakenly targeted the plane.
Hamed Esmailiou, a spokesman for the Association of Families of Victims of Flight PS 752, who himself lost his wife and daughter in the disaster, says the Iranian government must be held accountable. The downed Ukrainian flight had 55 Canadian citizens on board.
Previously, Human Rights Watch had accused the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran of "following the past practice of evading responsibility and, instead of providing details of the investigation into the downing of the plane and those responsible for its fatal mistake, condemning those who protested the deaths of 176 people."
Source: Voice of America
