{"id":124035,"date":"2021-02-10T21:48:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=124035"},"modified":"2021-02-10T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T03:27:26","slug":"secret-recording-allegedly-shows-iranian-foreign-minister-admitting-ukrainian-flight-might-have-been-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-recording-allegedly-shows-iranian-foreign-minister-admitting-ukrainian-flight-might-have-been-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Recording Allegedly Shows Iranian Foreign Minister Admitting Ukrainian Flight Might Have Been Targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecret-recording-allegedly-shows-iranian-foreign-minister-admitting-ukrainian-flight-might-have-been-targeted%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=124035&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230489064.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An audio recording of a man identified by sources as Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif shows him saying that Ukrainian International Airlines 752, which was hit by two surface-to-air missiles fired by Iran\u2019s Islamic&nbsp;Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), killing all&nbsp;176&nbsp;people aboard on January 8, 2020, may have been deliberately targeted, rather than an accident, as the Iranian government has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The individual,&nbsp;identified by sources as Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif,&nbsp;is heard saying on the recording that&nbsp;there are a \u201cthousand possibilities\u201d to explain&nbsp;the downing of the jet,&nbsp;including a&nbsp;deliberate&nbsp;attack involving&nbsp;two or three \u201cinfiltrators\u201d \u2014&nbsp;a scenario&nbsp;he said was \u201cnot at all unlikely,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/audio-recording-iran-minister-foreign-affairs-flight-ps752-1.5906538\">CBC News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The man sources identified as Zarif stated on the recording, \u201cThere are reasons that they will never be revealed. They won\u2019t tell us, nor anyone else, because if they do it will open some doors into the defense systems of the country that will not be in the interest of the nation to publicly say.\u201d He added, \u201cEven if you assume that it was an organized intentional act, they would never tell us or anyone else. There would have been two or three people who did this. And&nbsp;it\u2019s not at all unlikely. They could have been infiltrators. There are a thousand possibilities. Maybe it was really because of the war and it was the radar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Goodale, the prime minister\u2019s special adviser on the&nbsp;Flight PS752 file, said the recording was obtained by Canada\u2019s forensic examination and assessment team last November. He stated, \u201cWe\u2019re treating all the evidence and all the potential evidence with the seriousness and the gravity that it deserves. We understand in a very acute way the thirst among the families for the complete, plain, unvarnished truth and that\u2019s what we will do our very best to get for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States has designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization. \u201cDespite international obligations stating the black boxes should be analyzed \u2018without delay,\u2019 Iran didn\u2019t move ahead with that process until six months after the crash,\u201d CBC noted.<\/p>\n<p>Payam Akhavan, a&nbsp;former UN prosecutor, said of the possibility that Zarif thought the shooting-down was intentional, \u201cThe fact that he sees that as a real possibility, I think, should make us pause and really consider whether there\u2019s not something far more diabolical at play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Ambassador to Canada&nbsp;Andriy Shevchenko&nbsp;told CBC News, \u201cI think it\u2019s another reason for us not to accept anything smaller than the truth. We do not want to see any scapegoats instead of real wrongdoers. We do not want to see the truth being hidden behind state secrecy. We want to get to the bottom of this. \u2026 At this stage, we cannot exclude any possibilities. I think we are still so far away from having a clear picture on what happened \u2026 We obviously lack trust in our conversation with Iran. I think we have a feeling that Iran shares as little information as possible. \u2026 It\u2019s going to be very difficult to go ahead with the criminal investigation. So I think every piece of information like that is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flight was bound from Tehran to Kiev; fifteen children were aboard. It crashed near the village of Khalajabad. Among the passengers were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, three from Great Britain, four Afghanis, 10 Swedes, and three Germans, as well as 11 Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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