(ANSA-AFP) - TEHRAN, 21 JAN - Iran has confirmed two missiles
were fired at a Ukrainian airliner brought down this month, in a
catastrophic error that killed all 176 people on board and
sparked angry protests.
The country's civil aviation authority said it has yet to
receive a positive response after requesting technical
assistance from France and the United States to decode black
boxes from the downed airliner.
The Kiev-bound Ukraine International Airlines plane was
accidentally shot down shortly after takeoff from Tehran's Imam
Khomeini International Airport on January 8. Iran has come under
mounting international pressure to carry out a full and
transparent investigation into the air disaster.
"Investigators... discovered that two Tor-M1 missiles... were
fired at the aircraft," Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation said
in a preliminary report posted on its website late Monday.
(ANSA-AFP).
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