The plane ws shot when it was at the center line of Amber 59 airway. The Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali - Akbar Velayati , spoke to the Security Council of the United Nations and gave the Iranian version of the shooting down of an Iranian commercial aircraft . He said that all available evidence showed that the disaster could not have been caused by a mistake by the crew of the aircraft . The huge difference between the configuration of an airbus and a warship renders absurd any claim of mistaken identity . He belittled such explanations by the United States , and said that it was evident the warship took an aggressive course and prevented the massacre of 200 innocent people .
The Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali - Akbar Velayati , spoke to the Security Council of the United Nations and gave the Iranian version of the shooting down of an Iranian commercial aircraft . He said that all available evidence showed that the disaster could not have been caused by a mistake by the crew of the aircraft . The huge difference between the configuration of an airbus and a warship renders absurd any claim of mistaken identity . He belittled such explanations by the United States , and said that it was evident the warship took an aggressive course and prevented the massacre of 200 innocent people .