Iran's foreign minister said 'US adventurism' is to blame for the Iranian military shooting down a passenger jet

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• Iran admitted early Saturday that it shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that had just left Tehran.
• However, its foreign minister immediately said that the US also bore responsibility.
• In a tweet published moments after the admission, Javad Zarif blamed the error on "a time of crisis caused by US adventurism."
• The jet was shot down hours after Iran launched missiles at US troops in Iraq, itself a retaliation for the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.
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Iran's foreign minister blamed "US adventurism" for causing the Iranian military to shoot down a Ukrainian passenger plane with 176 people on board.

Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter that the United States created the conditions in which Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps accidentally launched a missile at Ukrainian Airlines flight 752.

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