Courtesy: BBC
According to international media reports, a Canadian court has ordered Iran to pay 107 million Canadian dollars (approximately 652 crore rupees in Indian currency) along with interest to the families of the six people killed in a plane crash in Iran in 2020.
The Ontario High Court in Ontario, Canada, has ordered that compensation be paid to family members who have lost their spouses, siblings, children, siblings’ daughters and sons.
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It was not immediately clear how the compensation would be collected from Iran.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 (PS752) was shot down by two missiles after taking off from Tehran Airport. At the time, Iran said it had mistaken the plane for a US missile.
All 176 people on board were killed in the incident. 55 of them are Canadians and 35 are permanent residents of Canada.
Relatives of the victims have filed a lawsuit against Iran and other officials responsible for the incident.
Relatives’ lawyer Mark Arnold said his team would consider seizing Iranian assets (including oil tankers) in Canada and abroad for compensation.
This is the first time in the Canadian media that Iran has offered compensation to the families of victims without putting forward its case in court.
Last year, the Canadian government reported that Iran had “full responsibility” for the downing of the plane, as a result of the country’s “incompetence” and “irresponsibility”.
Iranian authorities initially denied responsibility for the incident, which took place on January 8, 2020.
However, as evidence of the incident increased, the Revolutionary Guards’ Aerospace Force claimed that the Boeing 737-800 was mistaken for a U.S. missile by Iran’s air defense division.
At the time, Iran’s air defense was on high alert. This is because the country fired ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases with US forces.
Five days earlier, a US drone strike in Baghdad had killed a senior Iranian official, General Qasim Suleimani. Iran launched an offensive in retaliation for the incident.
Iranian officials have said there was no contact. On January 8, 2020, a passenger plane flying from the airport in Tehran, the capital of Iran, to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, crashed within minutes.
The plane crashed just hours after Iran launched a missile attack on US military bases in Iraq in retaliation for the US assassination of its military commander, General Qasim Suleimani.
Western nations, including the United States and Canada, have said that Iran may have mistaken the passenger plane for a US warplane, warning that the United States could retaliate at any time for its attack on U.S. military positions.
In the next few days, the Iranian military admitted that Iran had “mistakenly shot down” the plane in the wake of repeated Western accusations.
The Iranian judiciary said next week after a plane crash that it had arrested several people in connection with a missile attack and a mistaken shooting.
Thanks: BBC
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