TIL Desk/World/Tehran/ Police in Tehran have been ordered to show “restraint” at demonstrations that erupted after the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet, the Iranian capital’s police chief said Monday.
“The police treated the people who had gathered with patience and tolerance” in a second night of demonstrations in Tehran on Sunday, said General Hossein Rahimi. “The police did not shoot at the gatherings at all because a restraint order (had been issued) for police in the capital,” he said in a statement published by state television.
The
Ukraine International Airlines plane bound for Kiev was shot down shortly after
take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board. Officials
in Iran initially denied Western claims the Boeing 737 was downed by a missile,
before acknowledging on Saturday that it had been shot down in a catastrophic
error.
