IRGC Aerospace head accepts all the responsibility for plane crash

The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh on Saturday accepted all the responsibility for the Tehran plane crash.

“For more than a week, the region’s conditions and the likelihood of conflict have been unprecedented since the beginning of the revolution,” Hajizadeh said before reporters.

“The forces on both sides were on the highest level of readiness for any attack, especially as the Americans had announced that would hit 52 cultural spots in Iran. So all the Iranian offensive and defensive units were on high alert,” he added.

“What we did during the night of the incident was to prepare for the war, and the highest level of alert was communicated to the systems through the integrated defense network,” Hajizadeh went on to say, adding, “Under these circumstances, a number of defensive systems were added to the Tehran Defense Ring. That is, the accident occurred by the first system deployed in the western part of Tehran.”