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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian newspapers proclaimed the country’s attack on U.S. forces in Iraq to be “a dark night for Americans,” and Washington’s “first admission of failure in history.” On the bustling streets of Tehran, however, there was relief Thursday that neither side appeared primed for war.

“War is not something like the ‘Call of Duty’ game,” said Dara Shojaei, a 23-year-old architecture student. “It’s not a game you can play to win. There’s no winner.”

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week at a time of soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran, killing all 176 people on board, state media reported Friday.

The move came after Western leaders said the plane appeared to have been unintentionally hit by a surface-to-air missile near Tehran hours after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two U.S. bases in Iraq to avenge the killing of its top general in an American airstrike.

TEHRAN, January 9. /TASS/: US proposal for cooperation with Iran will make no sense as long as US sanctions against Tehran stay in effect, Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Majid Takht Ravanchi said on Thursday.

Iran will not be misled by the US president giving offer of cooperation when he has imposed unprecedented sanctions, Ravanchi told the Iranian news agency IRNA in an interview.

After the pullout from the nuclear deal the US has imposed numerous sanctions against Iran, thus exerting serious pressure on the Iranians’ lives, Ravanchi noted.

TEHRAN, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran's civil aviation authority has said it will not hand over two black boxes recovered from an ill-fated Ukrainian airliner with 176 people aboard to the plane's manufacturer Boeing or the United States, but will cooperate with Ukraine.

Both of the plane's black box voice and data recorders had been found, Iranian state television reported on Wednesday.

A Boeing 737 Ukrainian passenger plane crashed near Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport on Wednesday morning, killing all passengers and crew members on board.

TEHRAN, Jan 9 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s civil aviation authority said, it will not hand over the two black boxes recovered from an ill-fated Ukrainian airliner with 176 people aboard, to the plane’s manufacturer Boeing or the United States, but will cooperate with Ukraine.

Both of the plane’s black box voice and data recorders had been found, Iranian state television reported.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian investigators said Thursday that the crew members of the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed the previous day never made a radio call for help and were trying to turn back to the airport when the plane went down.

Iran’s civil aviation authority made the comments in a preliminary crash report a day after the crash of the Ukrainian jetliner that killed all 176 people on board.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The latest on U.S.-Iran tensions after the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran’s top general (all times local):

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Iran is informing the United Nations that it took “a measured and proportionate military response” to the U.S. airstrike that killed its top military commander and “does not seek escalation or war.”

But Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi warned that Tehran would “vigorously” respond to “any further military adventurism against it” and “any aggression.”

TEHRAN, Jan 8 (NNN-IRNA) — A passenger plane has crashed near the Imam Khomeini International Airport in southern Tehran, according to Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).

The plane is reported to be a Boeing 737 which belongs to an Ukrainian airline.

The Ukraine International Airlines flight was said to be on the way to Kiev from Tehran when it crashed after taking off.

Speaking to IRNA,  Emergency Department spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi said the plane was carrying 170 passengers and crew members.

TEHRAN, January 8. /TASS/: The Iranian military delivered another round of missile attacks targeting US military facilities, Tasnim news agency reported.

The agency did not specify the exact locations of the new wave of attacks reporting only that they were carried out with the use of missiles.

TEHRAN, Jan 8 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), fired “tens of surface-to-surface missiles” at the U.S. airbase in Anbar, in western Iraq, in retaliation for the killing of Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, Press TV reported today (Wednesday).

The IRGC called for a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Arab country, and said that, it would not differentiate between the United States and Israel, in retaliation against the assassination of the Iranian general, according to the report.