{"id":642665,"date":"2020-01-10T08:12:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642665"},"modified":"2020-01-10T08:12:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:12:53","slug":"iran-denies-ukrainian-plane-downed-by-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642665","title":{"rendered":"Iran denies Ukrainian plane downed by missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"115\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/iran-plane-crash-190x115.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>Iran\u2019s civil aviation chief denied Friday that a missile downed a Ukrainian airliner which crashed killing all 176 on board, dismissing claims of a catastrophic mistake by Tehran\u2019s air defences. The declaration at a press conference in the Iranian capital came after Britain and Canada pointed to what they said were signs of an accidental [\u2026]&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/iran-denies-ukrainian-plane-downed-by-missile-73000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Iran denies Ukrainian plane downed by missile<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Air Force News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s civil aviation chief denied Friday that a missile downed a Ukrainian airliner which crashed killing all 176 on board, dismissing claims of a catastrophic mistake by Tehran\u2019s air defences.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642666,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/642666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}