Canada Serves Ontario Superior Court Ruling on Ukrainian Aircraft to Iran’s Foreign Ministry

Canada announced that it has served the ruling of Ontario’s Superior Court regarding the downing of Flight 752 over Tehran’s airspace to Iran’s Foreign Ministry.

The ministry, in a letter dated June 7, stated to Gardiner Miller law firm, which represents several families of victims of Ukrainian Flight 752 in Canada, that the court ruling has been delivered to the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Ontario’s Superior Court in Canada ruled last April that the downing of the Ukrainian aircraft by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was a “deliberate” and “terrorist” act.

Canadian broadcaster CBC reported at the time that four survivors of Flight 752 victims, along with one woman who wished to remain anonymous, filed a public lawsuit against Iran in Ontario court. The Iranian government sent no representative to the court and did not defend itself against the allegations.

The Ontario court determined damages for the plaintiffs in this case at 107 million Canadian dollars. However, Iran called the court’s ruling “baseless” and argues that Ontario’s Superior Court “has no jurisdiction” to investigate the aircraft downing, as this incident “occurred outside the territory and jurisdiction of Canada.”

The Ukrainian aircraft with flight number PS752 was shot down on January 8, 2020, by at least two air defense missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and all 176 passengers and crew members, most of whom were Iranian and Iranian-Canadian dual citizens, were killed.

The Islamic Republic denied downing the flight for several days, but after evidence and documents were released by the United States, Australia, Canada, and Britain, it finally admitted under international pressure that the aircraft was shot down by missiles from the Guard’s defense system, but claims the incident occurred due to “human error.”

Source: Radio Farda