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the skies above around at the moment however, knowing that iran switched on its air defense systems in the early hours of the morning, we only you have to think back to early january 2020, shortly after the united states targeted qasem soleimani, that senior figure in the quds force killed him in a drone strike while he was in iraq. well, a few days later, when iranian air, space and air defenses were on heightened alert, they mistaken only shot down a civil passenger aircraft in the skies above tehran on so the fact that they are closing airspace may just be a protection for the civilian aircraft because they don t want to make a mistake again, and shoot down a civilian aircraft mistaking it for a potential fighter jet really important reporting will continue to go to you as well. important note that on february 26 of just this year a

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