Javad Soleimani: The Question is Why Did They ‘Intentionally’ Down the Passenger Plane?

Javad Soleimani, the husband of one of the victims of the Ukrainian passenger plane downing, raised the question in his Twitter post that [the IRGC] “why intentionally downed the passenger plane?”

Javad Soleimani, on Tuesday, June 3, posted a video on his Twitter page stating that “the question is not” whether the downing of the Ukrainian plane was intentional or accidental. The question is “why did they intentionally down the passenger plane?”

Referring to the specifications of the IRGC’s Tor M1 defense system, he wrote that “even a two-eyed animal could distinguish a cruise missile from a Boeing 800 series passenger plane!!”

In a video that Mr. Soleimani released, he stated that subsidiaries of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attempted to destroy the voice recorder of the pilots in the aircraft’s black box.

Early morning Wednesday, December 9, a Boeing 737 passenger plane of Ukraine International Airlines with 176 passengers was shot down by the IRGC air defense system shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini International Airport on the outskirts of Tehran. After several days of Iranian officials’ insistence that the plane’s crash was due to a technical fault, the IRGC eventually announced that it had mistakenly targeted the aircraft.

Hamed Esmaeilion, spokesman for the Association of Families of Victims of Flight PS752, who himself lost his wife and daughter in this tragedy, says that the Iranian government should be held responsible. The downed Ukrainian flight had 55 Canadian citizens on board.

Previously, Human Rights Watch had accused the Islamic Republic of Iran’s authorities of “following past practice, evading responsibility and instead of presenting the details of investigations into the downing of the plane and those responsible for the deadly mistake, condemning individuals who had protested the death of 176 people.”

Source: Voice of America