Iran Arrested the Persons Suspected of Ukrainian Boeing Shot Down

The representative of the Iranian Supreme Court announced the arrest of several people suspected of involvement in the rocket attack of the Ukrainian Boeing. After the crash near Tehran, Iranian authorities arrested several people suspected of involvement in rocket attack, the representative of the Supreme Court of Iran, Golyam Hossein Ismaily said on Tuesday, January 14. He also noted that the investigation of the crash of the Ukrainian liner is at the initial stage. He did not give further details, refusing to indicate the names of the detainees and their quantity. Iran will create a special court to investigate the crash Earlier that day, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced the creation of a special court for rocket attack investigation, as a result of which the passenger jet Boeing flying to Kiev was shot down. “The judiciary should form a special court, which will include a senior judge and dozens of experts,” he said in a televised address. Rouhani also called the plane crash near Tehran a “grave and unforgivable” mistake and emphasized that the whole world “will follow the process of this case.” According to the Iranian president, the responsibility for the downed ship lays not only on the person who directly fired. “Everyone who needs to be punished should be punished,” he further said. Rouhani called “the first good step” Tehran’s recognition that Iran’s forces shot down the plane. Plane crash near Tehran On the night of January 11, Tehran officially admitted that the airliner of Ukraine’s International Airlines was shot down by Iran. The tragedy occurred "unintentionally" and was the result of a "human-factor error," the Iranian military said. They pointed out that the Ukrainian plane flying over a secret military facility under the control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was mistaken with a cruise missile and got shot down by a short-range missile. The Boeing 737-800 of Ukraine’s International Airlines, flying from Tehran to Kiev, crashed on the morning of January 8 shortly after departure from the Iranian capital. The victims of the disaster were all the 176 people on board.