Tehran for days denied Western claims based on US intelligence that the Boeing 737 had been downed by a missile. At a televised news conference, the judiciary announced the first arrests had been made over the blunder, without specifying how many. From Wednesday morning when the incident happened until the meeting on Friday night of the Supreme National Security Council. Iran has invited experts from Canada, France, Ukraine and the United States to take part in the probe. On Monday night, Canada's Transportation Safety Board said its investigators flying to Tehran would be granted access to the wreckage and black box flight recorders of the downed airliner.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 14, 2020 10:07 UTC