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Armin Morattab was glued to his television Tuesday night watching Iranian missiles rain down on an Iraqi airbase housing U.S. soldiers.

Morattab was concerned that his country was on the brink of war with the U.S. But he was even more worried about his twin brother, Arvin, who was at the airport in Tehran waiting to board a flight to Ukraine before coming home to Montreal.

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As the situation escalated, Morattab called his brother with the news and begged him to take shelter in case the Americans would bomb the Tehran airport in retaliation.

But his twin brother assured him that the airport was calm and urged Morattab to stop worrying.

“He said he was coming back home soon,” Armin Morattab recalled on Wednesday, shortly after learning that his beloved brother and sister-in-law, Aida Farzaneh, were among 176 victims, including at least six Quebecers, who died when a Boeing 737-800 crashed shortly after takeoff. The cause of the crash is not yet known.