Said the parents of two The victims of the Ukrainian planeof the plane that was shot down by Iran. They believe that the Revolutionary Guards targeted the plane and deliberately shot it down to take it as a “human shield”.
The statements of Dr. Mohsen Asadi-Lari and Dr. Zahra Majd, both of whom are faculty members at the Iranian University of Medical Sciences, came in an interview they conducted last Tuesday with the Iranian “Ensaf News” website at the university’s campus in Tehran and was published yesterday, Saturday.
Their sons, Mohammad Hossein and Zainab Asadi Lari, were among the 176 people on board the Ukrainian airliner, which was on a flight between Tehran and Kiev, which was shot down by a Revolutionary Guard missile two years ago, killing all passengers and crew.
From the site of the downing of the Ukrainian plane
It is noteworthy that Dr. Asadi Lari, the father of the two victims, graduated from Britain and previously held the position of Director General of the International Cooperation Department in the Iranian Ministry of Health. And Mohammed Hussein and Zainab are his only children.
Asadi Larry referred to the report prepared by Agnes Callamard, an official in the United Nations, and said: “We have already come to the conclusion that they hit the plane as a human shield. Let me be very frank, because it spread and we said it many times.. And then blame America, as they’ve done it before in similar cases.”
In turn, Dr. Majd, the mother of the two victims, confirmed this scenario and explained that the Iranian officials themselves support this, as they say, “If the plane had not crashed, a fierce battle would have broken out the next day, and the United States launched its attack (on Iran…) and the lives of ten million people would be at risk.” .
On the other hand, Dr. Asadi Larry said that the cause of Iranian officials’ failure to provide victims’ families with a report About the incident is that “there are issues that, if clarified, will appear to contradict the facts and reports they have published with their claims made so far.”
The parents said that in the days following the accident, many officials in the country came to visit the family, but they did not receive many of them. Among those who met the parents were IRGC commander Hossein Salami, former Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri and former government spokesman Mahmoud Vaezi.
Dr. Majd added that the family is the sameShe visited Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of Iran at the timeAnd he told her that “a very limited circle knows the secrets of the accident,” adding: “Even the government and Zarif himself, who was a member of the Supreme National Security Council, does not know” the secrets of the accident.
Ukrainian plane wreckage
For his part, Dr. Asadi-Lari said: “The authorities were warning us not to repeat the statements of the counter-revolutionary forces accusing the Revolutionary Guards of shooting down the plane until the Revolutionary Guards admitted, under pressure of evidence, that the plane was targeted.”
He revealed that when the Revolutionary Guard announced this, he was stunned, adding: “I hit myself until I fainted because I did not expect our children and families to be targeted by the missiles that were supposed to protect us.”
While Dr. Asadi Larry stressed the “need to document what happened,” he revealed that “a lot of… Families of the victims residing in Iran She refuses to give interviews out of fear” of the authorities.
