Iran's military knew it accidentally shot down a passenger plane moments after it happened, and a stunning new report details how it was covered up even from Iran's president
Get the Full StoryAP Photo Ebrahim NorooziOn January 8, a passenger plane carrying 176 people crashed outside of Tehran, in Iran. Everyone on board was killed in the crash.
The plane was shot down by two antiaircraft missiles fired, by mistake, by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Iran's military was on high alert in early January after the United States ordered a drone strike in Iraq that killed Iranian military commander general Qassem Soleimani.
According to a new report in the New York Times, Iran knew that it had accidentally fired on the aircraft immediately but the country's Revolutionary Guards hid the truth for days, even from Iran's president Hassan Rouhani.
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