Stepping stones to Tehran’s dawn tragedy
Pundits were poring over the videos, speculating on the crash that killed 176 innocent people
16 January 2020 - 05:00
It took some days, a couple of bulldozers and a rash of videos uploaded to the internet by ordinary citizens for Iran’s leadership to admit that one of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air defence units shot down Ukraine International’s Flight PS 752 just after 6am on Wednesday.
Such is the age we live in, that even a draconian regime such as Tehran’s could not control the unfolding story...
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