Iran has backtracked by admitting it “unintentionally” shot down a Ukranian airliner, hours after launching ballistic missiles at two US bases in Iraq to avenge the killing of its top military general Qassem Soleimani in an American airstrike.
Iranian authorities had spent much of last week claiming mechanical failure was behind the crash.
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