UN Rapporteur: Iran Tried To ‘Mislead’ After Shooting Down Ukraine Passenger Jet
Debris of Flight 752, which was shot down in January 2020, on the outskirts of Tehran
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Ukrainian airplane’s destruction in Iran may have been intentional act, new recording reveals
Canada’s government and security agencies are investigating an audio recording with new details about the Iranian missile attack that destroyed Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 near Tehran on Jan. 8, 2020, killing all 176 people on board. Canadian media outlet CBC gained access to the recording, in which a person — identified by its sources as Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad
Read moreKremlin cancels Putin’s meeting with Iran’s Parliament Speaker
A meeting of Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was scheduled for Saturday, was cancelled. Ghalibaf is on a three-day visit to Moscow. According to Iranian MP Mojtaba Tavangar, the meeting was cancelled after Qalibaf refused to accept the health protocols required for the meetings with the Russian President. During the meeting, Ghalibaf was
Read moreIran to Pay $150,000 for Each Victim of Ukrainian Crashed Plane
“The government will pay the allocated money to the victims’ families once it is provided based on the reports,” Joneidi said, adding that the Ministry of Road and Urban Development is charged with paying compensation money to their families in cooperation with other national sectors. She stressed that Iran will pay the money to the families of the victims regardless
Read moreIran promises to publish report on UIA plane crash ‘later today or by tomorrow’
Technical report surrounding the January 8 crash of UIA’s flight PS752 near Tehran has been completed and will be published soon. A corresponding statement was made by Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, Ukrinform reports with reference to MEHR. The spokesman said the report will be published and delivered to the Ukrainian side later today or by tomorrow. “The related
Read moreCanada’s FM doesn’t believe human error was to blame for UIA plane crash
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne does not believe Iran’s destruction of Ukrainian Flight PS752 can be blamed on human error. He said he did not accept Iran’s explanation for the cause of the crash but declined to outline other possible versions of the tragedy. “Well, we’ll let the process unfold… What I say is that we saw missiles being
Read moreProsecutor Mamedov: Iran conceals suspects in downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight
Iranian authorities have taken elaborate steps to keep the identities of suspects in the downing of a Ukraine International Airlines plane secret from the Ukrainian investigation and are attempting to convict and sentence them to mild penalties, according to Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Giunduz Mamedov. In total, 176 people were killed in the sky over Iran’s capital Tehran as one
Read moreBlack boxes from downed Ukraine jet show missiles hit 25 seconds apart, Iran says
Analysis from the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian passenger plane shows it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were still alive for some time after the impact of the first blast, Iran said on Sunday. The announcement by the head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization marks the first official report on the contents of
Read moreIran not willing to pay compensation over downed Ukrainian passenger jet
It’s European insurance firms who should be paying, Tehran stands. Iran does not intend to compensate Ukraine’s largest air carrier, Ukraine International Airlines, for the downing near Tehran in January 2020 of its Boeing 737 passenger jet. According to the head of the Central Insurance Organization of Iran, Gholamrez Soleimani, the plane was not insured by Iranian insurance companies, Reuters
Read moreIran deeply concerned of Ukrainian airliner black boxes’ data being exposed
Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 29, 2020—“The French have no right to place this information in the hands of the media,” said Iranian regime Foreign Ministry spokesperson Abbas Mousavi on Monday, July 27. This vividly portrays Tehran’s deep concerns about the information of the Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 black boxes being exposed to the public. When asked by a
Read moreSatellite Images Show Iranian Replica Of U.S. Aircraft Carrier In Strait of Hormuz
Satellite images show that Iran has placed a replica of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, possibly to use for naval exercises. News agencies Reuters and AP reported on July 27 that the ship, which resembles a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, could be seen in images provided by U.S.-based space technology firm Maxar Technologies. In one image from
Read morePS752: Black box transcript confirms illegal interference with jet downed in Iran – media
22:59, 24 July 2020 – UNIAN An international team examining the black boxes from the jet has completed a preliminary analysis of the data in France. The transcript from the black boxes from a Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran on January 8 confirms the fact of illegal interference with the plane, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister wrote on Twitter on
Read moreIran sends downed Ukrainian plane’s black box to France
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran has sent the black box of the Ukrainian passenger jet that its armed forces mistakenly shot down in January to France for reading, an Iranian semi-official news agency said Saturday. Iran accidentally shot down the Boeing 737-800, killing all 176 people aboard, after mistaking it for an incoming missile. Iranian armed forces had been bracing
Read moreBetween War and Capitulation
As we deal with aggression from China, Iran, and Russia, it’s time to dust off the Reagan Doctrine. Danielle Pletka This week, the People’s Republic of China imposed Chinese national security law on Hong Kong, violating the 1997 Sino-British declaration handing the territory to Beijing and slamming the door on what was left of a free Hong Kong. The United
Read moreIranian officials ‘looted’ cellphones, rings, passports of plane crash victims, Canadian relatives say
Sources previously said Iran was harassing families of the crash victims, insisting they grieve privately and praise Tehran’s leaders Iranian authorities stripped the bodies of plane crash victims in January of jewellery, passports and other personal belongings before returning the remains to their loved ones, three family members charged Tuesday. The Canadian-based relatives alleged “looting” of bodies was just one
Read moreIran ready to deliver black box of Flight 752 for decryption: deputy FM
“According to our investigations, Iran, Ukraine, and many other countries are not able to decode the black box due to the aircraft’s modern technology,” he said, “Iran can deliver it to a French or any other foreign company with the required technology for its decryption but we have to make sure that there are no risks of abuse of the black box.” He informed
Read moreRadio Farda: Iran admits proposing separate settlement to Ukraine on downed plane
The Ukrainian government has consistently rejected a separate deal with Iran and says its position has not changed. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic in Ukraine for the first time admitted that Iran has proposed a settlement to close the case of the country’s Flight PS752 which Iran’s Revolutionary Guard downed in January. The
Read more“Iran’s airspace is not safe”: is more isolation the answer?
Will halting flights to Iran produce the desirable outcome and induce Iran into cooperation in the investigation of the Ukrainian plane crash? Six months after the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 catastrophe, families of the 176 victims and the governments involved, are still waiting for accountability. On the morning of 8 January, the Kiev-bound UIA flight PS752 crashed shortly after
Read moreIran ‘likely’ to give Ukrainian airplane black box to France – report
Following the Ukrainian’s side delay in responding to Iran’s offer regarding the Ukrainian plane’s black box, the Iranian authorities have decided to send the black box to another country. Iran will “likely” send the black box from the Ukrainian airplane shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to France, Al-Arabiya reported, citing Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency. The
Read moreGarneau says still no black boxes from Iran in January shootdown of airliner
OTTAWA — Canada and four other countries are still trying to pressure Iran to release the flight recorders from its Jan. 8 shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Friday. On March 11, Garneau was at the Montreal meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization when Iran’s representative promised his government would surrender the so-called black
Read moreIran names those responsible for PS752 downed aircraft
Missile system operator violated firing rules without permission Iran has named responsible for the Ukrainian plane shot down in January of this year near Tehran. It is the missile system operator, who violated the rules of firing “without permission”. This was stated by former Iranian lawmaker Mahmoud Sadeki with reference to the response to his request from the Minister of
Read moreIran naval vessel sunk by ‘friendly fire’ in Gulf of Oman
One sailor has been killed and others have been wounded in a “friendly fire” incident involving two Iranian naval vessels, Iranian state TV has said. A new anti-ship missile being tested by the frigate Jamaran hit the logistical ship Konarak. Initial reports said dozens of sailors were killed. The accident happened during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman,
Read moreHRW Urges Iran To Halt Prosecutions For Protests Over Ukraine Air Crash
ranians light candles for victims of the plane crash as they protest in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran on January 11.
Read moreFacebook Removes Hundreds Of Disinformation Accounts Linked To Russia, Iran, And Georgia
Facebook said its investigation linked activity on the Iran-based network to the state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Corporation.
Read moreIran Must Not Give in to U.S. Provocations, Says Russia
Iran must not give in to U.S. “provocations,” Russia said on Wednesday, following months of mounting tension between Washington and Tehran. “We are urging maximum restraint and caution, not to give in to provocations and aggressive rhetoric,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters. Tehran and Washington have traded barbs over a spate of incidents in the past year involving their forces
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