All of it was so unnecessary.

Two days back Ukrainian Airlines flight PS752 crashed minutes after take off from Imam Khomeini International Airport at Tehran in Iran just after 6 o'clock in the morning, killing all 167 passengers and 9 crew on board the aircraft. There were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, 4 Afghans, 3 Germans and 3 Britons among the passengers. Captain Volodymyr Gaponenko had 11,600 hours of experience flying the Boeing 737. This particular plane was a 737-800, which has a very good safety record, and was delivered in 2016, making it relatively recent. However, "The most recent audit by the International Civil Aviation Organisation, in 2017, found Ukraine to be below average for licensing, legislation, airworthiness, accident investigation and operations." The entire world took notice of the crash of this plane was because Iran had launched ballistic missiles against two bases in Iraq, with US troops, just hours earlier. Iran claimed it had killed 80 US troops in the strike but the US denied any of its soldiers had been hurt. "The United States had three hours warning of the missile strikes after Iran tipped them off via a European embassy and ensured their plans of an attack were easily detectable, US officials claim." "Army General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said earlier that Iran's missile attack intended to kill US personnel at Iraq'a al-Asad airbase," but "Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi had earlier revealed that Iran had given him a tip-off about the missile strikes, which they were able to pass on and give troops time to seek shelter in bunkers." Now, "Evidence suggests an Iranian missile brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran, possibly in error, Western leaders say." "Video obtained by the New York Times appeared to show a missile streaking across the night sky over Tehran and then exploding on contact with a plane. About ten seconds later a loud explosion is heard on the ground." "The evidence indicates the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a news conference Thursday. "This may well have been intentional." "The thing that is clear to us and that we can say with certainty is that this plane was not hit by a missile," said Chief of Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation Ali Abedzadeh. However, the government admitted its guilt by hastily bulldozing the crash site clear of all debris. In the last few hours Iranian officials have admitted to shooting down the aircraft in error, which western governments have already accepted, probably in a bid to avoid all out war. That does not mean the Iranian government will not have to pay a price. We can expect a spate of class action suits asking for compensation and damages in hundreds of millions of dollars, that Iran does not have. They won't be able to blame the US for that.