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Iranian Lawmaker Says Military Was Right to Shoot Down Ukrainian Airliner
(Radio Farda) Hassan Norouzi, spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's Legal and Judicial Commission, told the Hamdeli daily on Sunday that "The Iranian military did well by downing the [Ukrainian] passenger plane" on Jan. 8, killing all 176 onboard. He claimed that "the plane was no longer under the control of the tower and appeared to have come under America's control." Norouzi maintained that the plane "was in Israel the week before the incident and appeared to have been tampered with and manipulated there....Given the fact that other countries were controlling the plane," the Iranian military had no option but to shoot it down.