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Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iranian missile system

By Zach Halaschak, Rob Crilly
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Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iranian missile system

Officials believe an anti-aircraft missile system inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian airliner that killed 176 people.

A British diplomatic source told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that the commercial jet was shot down shortly after it departed Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport.

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