# IRGC missiles shoot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752

Date: 2020

## The fact

On 8 January 2020 two IRGC missiles shot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 after takeoff from Tehran, killing 176 people, hours after Iran struck US bases. Khamenei was CinC. Iran first denied, then admitted.

## Context

Soleimani had been killed days earlier. Neighbouring Ain al-Asad strikes are the same night cluster. He did not sit in the battery. The IRGC fired.

Ain al-Asad 8 January is neighbouring. Soleimani 3 January is the parent US strike.

The Supreme Leader of Iran is commander-in-chief and the highest constitutional authority. He does not write a US presidential strike order, an IAEA Board resolution, or a Hamas military plan. Presidents, the IRGC, and the Guardian Council implement and share specific files.

## Evidence and sources

Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) and justice: a completed shoot-down of a civilian airliner is a dated civilian-protection failure under CinC authority.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 8 January 2020 IRGC shoot-down of PS752, later admitted, independently reported.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He was commander-in-chief of the armed forces that night. Civil aviation sat in the same sky as a missile response.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies IRGC missiles shoot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, not a later speech about IRGC missiles shoot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. IRGC missiles shoot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 on 2020-01-08 is not a licence to treat every later Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average IRGC missiles shoot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The IRGC fired. He was commander-in-chief of the armed forces that night. Civil aviation sat in the same sky as a missile response. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Ali Khamenei: https://factrail.ai/people/ali-khamenei

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access
- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-idUSKBN1Z70N7
- https://english.khamenei.ir/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-ps752-2020