EU foreign ministers on Friday urged Iran not to conceal anything about the fatal crash of an airliner outside Tehran, as they met for crisis talks on tensions in the Middle East. Europe has been scrambling to contain two Iranian crises this week -- the fallout from the US killing a top Iranian general in Baghdad and Tehran's latest step back from the crumbling 2015 nuclear deal.
But reports from several Western capitals indicating that the crash of a Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737 -- which killed 176 people -- appeared to have been caused by an Iranian air defence missile prompted calls for clarity from Tehran.
Dutch Foreign Affairs minister Stef Blok has said that, based on information he received from Dutch intelligence services, it is "very likely" an Iranian missile brought the plane down.
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