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Iran plane shot down: Rohani calls for radical political change

President Hassan Rohani at a meeting on January 15, 2020 in Tehran. (AFP)

Iranian President Hassan Rohani on Wednesday called for a major change in his country's government, implicitly acknowledging that the catastrophe of the Ukrainian plane shot down in Tehran had caused a crisis of confidence in the authorities.

The Boeing 737 crashed a week ago in Tehran, killing 176 people, mostly Iranians and Canadians.

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