{"id":4350,"date":"2020-01-15T08:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2020-01-15T08:06:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:06:22","slug":"individual-who-took-shootdown-video-arrested-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=4350","title":{"rendered":"Individual Who Took &#8216;Shootdown&#8217; Video Arrested in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Iran plane downing: Person who filmed video &#8216;arrested&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/embed\/p0803jwq\/51114945\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><strong>Iran says it has arrested the person who filmed the footage showing a Ukrainian passenger plane being shot down by a missile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is believed the person being detained will face charges related to national security.<\/p>\n<p>Flight PS752 was brought down after it took off from Tehran on Wednesday last week, killing all 176 people on board.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has said it was shot down by accident and announced the arrest of several people over the incident.<\/p>\n<p>President Hassan Rouhani said his country&#8217;s investigation would be overseen by a &#8220;special court&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will not be a regular and usual case. The whole world will be watching this court,&#8221; he said in a speech.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rouhani also stressed that the &#8220;tragic event&#8221; should not be blamed on one individual.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4352\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4352\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/110512356_059141882-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/110512356_059141882-1.jpg 624w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/110512356_059141882-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EPA &#8211; Mr Rouhani described the downing of the plane as an unforgiveable error<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not only the person who pulled the trigger, but also others who are responsible,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran initially denied that the aircraft was hit by a missile, but later conceded that the passenger jet was hit by its air defence systems.<\/p>\n<p>When the video was shared on social media, it led analysts to say it showed the plane was hit by a missile.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Who has been arrested?<\/h2>\n<p>Iranian media reported that Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guards had taken a person who posted a video last week of the missile striking the plane into custody.<\/p>\n<p>But an Iranian journalist based in London who initially posted the footage has insisted that his source is safe, and that the Iranian authorities have arrested the wrong person.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m getting lots of calls.<\/p>\n<p>They have arrested the WRONG person regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flight752?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Flight752<\/a> In Iran. The person who is a source of the video is SAFE and I can assure you IRGC is orchestrating another lie. They killed 176 passengers on commercial plane. Thats the real story here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X2k0ycwMBD\">https:\/\/t.co\/X2k0ycwMBD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; me@narimangharib.com (@NarimanGharib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NarimanGharib\/status\/1217140522701246466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Iranian judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said that several people had been detained over the downing of the plane.<\/p>\n<div class=\"social-embed\">\n<div class=\"social-embed-post social-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"embed embed-twitter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He added that about 30 people had been arrested for &#8220;taking part in illegal gatherings&#8221; &#8211; an apparent reference to recent anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/14\/world\/iran-plane-crash-video.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">Separately the New York Times said security camera footage showed two missiles\u00a0<\/a>were fired at the plane, more than 20 seconds apart.<\/p>\n<p>The paper said this would explain why the plane&#8217;s transponder seemed to have stopped working before the missile strike &#8211; it had been disabled by the first missile.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-portrait no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/15EB1\/production\/_110477798_90d5562b-7ee8-4c80-8248-085c13cf41f1.png\" alt=\"Map showing Iran plane crash\" width=\"640\" height=\"900\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">ALAMY<\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/1460\/production\/_110461250__109028083_1px_white_line-nc.png\" alt=\"White space\" width=\"624\" height=\"1\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What are other countries saying?<\/h2>\n<p>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC on Tuesday that he was &#8220;glad&#8221; Iran had acknowledged making a &#8220;terrible mistake&#8221; in shooting down the plane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good that they&#8217;ve apologised. The most important thing now is that tensions in the region calm down,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnson said the next step for Iran was to &#8220;repatriate in a dignified way&#8221; the bodies of the passengers and crew of flight PS752, who included three Britons.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Monday that five of the countries that had citizens on board the airliner &#8211; Canada, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Sweden and an unnamed country &#8211; would meet in London on Thursday to discuss possible legal action.<\/p>\n<p>He said the &#8220;grieving nations&#8221; would work out what steps to take individually and collectively to &#8220;bring the perpetrators to justice and how we can repay those families who have suffered&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Canada, which lost 57 citizens, will meanwhile play a more active role than international rules require in the investigation into the shooting down of the airliner, according to Kathy Fox, the head of its Transportation Safety Board (TSB).<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-51114945\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-51114945<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran plane downing: Person who filmed video &#8216;arrested&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}