Apparently, being “trigger happy” is common there. This from a 2012 NYT article,
“The combination of heightened vigilance and poor command and control led to series of mistakes, according to a highly classified 2008 Pentagon report on “Operational Mishaps by Air Defense Units.”
In June 2007, the report noted, a Revolutionary Guards air defense unit fired a TOR-M1 surface-to-air missile at a civilian airliner. In May 2008, an antiaircraft battery fired on an Iranian reconnaissance drone and a civilian airliner. That same month, an antiaircraft battery fired on an Iranian F-14 fighter jet.”
It’s behind the NYT paywall.
Supposedly, the Ukrainian investigators are being stonewalled and withheld from the wreckage which has been removed from the site. SkyNews says the Iranian government will announce a cause tomorrow.
GF