{"id":58522,"date":"2020-01-14T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58522"},"modified":"2020-01-14T20:25:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T12:25:42","slug":"iran-arrests-suspects-in-ukrainian-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58522","title":{"rendered":"Iran arrests suspects in Ukrainian plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, Jan 14 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8212; Iranian authorities have arrested a number of suspects in the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane last week, the country&#8217;s judiciary commission said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspects were arrested &#8220;for their role in the plane crash,&#8221; commission spokesman Ghulam Hussein Ismaili said in statements cited by Press TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrests came after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani demanded his country to establish a &#8220;special court headed by a senior judge&#8221; to prosecute those responsible for the plane tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran said the aircraft was &#8220;unintentionally&#8221; shot down by a missile after flying towards a sensitive military site, terming it a &#8220;human error&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident came hours after Iran fired a dozen ballistic missiles on airbases housing U.S. troops in Iraq, in response to the killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a U.S. drone airstrike near Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 82 Iranians among the plane victims, in addition to 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, four Afghans, three Britons and three Germans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Jan 14 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8212; Iranian authorities have arrested a number of suspects in the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane last week, the country&#8217;s judiciary commission said on Tuesday. The suspects were arrested &#8220;for their role in the plane crash,&#8221; commission spokesman Ghulam Hussein Ismaili said in statements cited by Press TV. The arrests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":58230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,217,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}