US officials ‘confident’ Iran shot down plane, launches detected — report

CBS News is reporting that US officials are “confident” the Ukrainian plane that crashed this week near Tehran was shot down by Iran.

US intelligence picked up satellite signals of two Iranian missiles, likely SA-15s, followed by an infrared blip of an explosion, the US website reports. Before that, it detected signals of a radar being turned on.

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