‘I want I used to be inside that aircraft’: Iran’s IRGC chief expresses sorrow over downing of Ukrainian jet

The highest commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, Main Normal Hossein Salami, has expressed his deepest condolences, saying he had by no means felt extra ashamed in his life than after the Ukrainian passenger jet tragedy.

Debriefing the session of Iran’s parliament on Sunday, Salami acknowledged that IRGC has no different objective or want “however to be torn into items for the sake of the safety, welfare and peace of [Iranian] individuals.”

I swear on the lifetime of my kids… I want I have been inside that aircraft and fell down and burned together with these family members as an alternative of witnessing this tragic incident. 

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The Ukraine Worldwide Airways Flight 752 was misidentified as an incoming cruise missile, in keeping with Iran’s army, which was on excessive alert on the time of the incident following a strike in opposition to US belongings in Iraq. In response to IRGC, the army by no means sought to cover the incident and instantly notified authorities, but this data was not instantly publicly disclosed, pending an inside probe, as a due process was to be adopted.

Among the many 176 individuals who perished within the tragedy, some 147 have been Iranians – together with dozens of scholars with twin Canadian citizenship. Among the mass vigils held for the victims throughout Iran became anti-government rallies, whereas western officers and institution figures spared no effort to indicate how a lot they supposedly admire the ‘braveness’ of Iranians who took to the streets to vent their anger and conflict with authorities.

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