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Britain Advises Citizens Not to Travel to Iran


Fri 10 Jan 2020 | 10:55 AM
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Britain advised, on Friday, its citizens not to travel to Iran at all, as there is information suggesting that the Ukrainian plane that crashed on Wednesday could have been shot down by an Iranian missile.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: “Given the body of information that Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile, and the heightened tensions, we are now advising British nationals not to travel to Iran.”

In a statement from the Foreign Office, Raab added: “We also recommend against taking a flight to, from and within Iran.”

Earlier, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there is now a body of information that points out that the Ukranian Boeing-737 was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.

In a statement, Johnson added that this incident may well have been unintentional.

US officials believe that Iran accidentally shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran on Wednesday at dawn, killing all 176 people on board, US media reported Thursday.

On his part, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rubaie said in a statement that Iran dismissed, on Thursday, reports that the Ukrainian plane that crashed near Tehran was hit by a missile, claiming that all these reports are a psychological warfare against Iran.