Secret Recording Allegedly Shows Iranian Foreign Minister Admitting Ukrainian Flight Might Have Been Targeted

An audio recording of a man identified by sources as Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif shows him saying that Ukrainian International Airlines 752, which was hit by two surface-to-air missiles fired by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), killing all 176 people aboard on January 8, 2020, may have been deliberately targeted, rather than an accident, as the Iranian government has claimed.

The individual, identified by sources as Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, is heard saying on the recording that there are a “thousand possibilities” to explain the downing of the jet, including a deliberate attack involving two or three “infiltrators” — a scenario he said was “not at all unlikely,” CBC News reported.