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Iranian justice announces arrests in plane disaster case

National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Iran has made arrests in the case of the Ukrainian Boeing disaster, which was mistakenly shot down by an Iranian missile near Tehran, killing 176 passengers on board, justice spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced on Tuesday.

These are the first arrests announced by Tehran since the January 8 crash of the plane, which was carrying mostly Iranians and Canadians, hours after Iranian missile strikes against military bases in Iraq in retaliation five days earlier to the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.

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