Iran shot down the plane on Wednesday when its military was on high alert, hours after firing missiles at US targets in Iraq. The domestic unrest triggered by the plane crash comes just two months after the most violent crackdown on protests since the revolution. London hosts a meeting on Thursday of Canada, Ukraine, Britain and other nations who had citizens on the plane. It followed a meeting in Tehran between experts from Canada, which had 57 citizens on the flight, Ukraine and Iran. The shootdown and subsequent unrest comes amid one of the biggest escalations in tensions between Tehran and Washington since 1979.

Source: bd News24 January 14, 2020 23:15 UTC