A passenger plane carrying 170 people crashed in Iran shortly after takeoff Wednesday morning, killing all on board, according to Iranian officials.
"An investigation team from the national aviation department was dispatched to the location after the news was announced," spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh of the Iranian Aviation Organization said in a statement.
The crash occurred hours after Iran fired multiple missiles into Iraq, targeting U.S. military sites in what appeared to be retaliation for the recent American drone strike that killed one of its top generals.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed his condolences in a statement.

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