Tehran calls on all parties to avoid politicising the issue and obstructing investigations.
Iran’s civil aviation authority said on Tuesday it would keep working with other countries investigating the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane last month and it called on all parties to avoid politicising the issue.They later admitted they had done so by mistake while on high alert hours after they had fired at US targets in retaliation for a US strike that killed Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said on Sunday that the leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran showed that Iran knew immediately it had shot down the plane despite denying it for days.
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