Canada Rejects Iran’s Proposed Compensation; Ralph Goodale: Tehran Has No Right to Unilaterally Determine Compensation Amount
Canada’s special advisor in the case of the Ukrainian passenger aircraft that was shot down last year by Iranian military forces has rejected Iran’s proposal to pay $150,000 to the families of the victims of that aircraft.
Ralph Goodale, Canada’s former public safety minister, says Iran has no right to unilaterally determine compensation for the families of the victims.
According to Canadian Press, Goodale says the final compensation amount should be determined after negotiations between Iran, Canada, and four other countries whose citizens were killed in the strike on the Ukrainian passenger aircraft by two missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
According to Ralph Goodale, the negotiation process must be followed and this process has not yet begun. Mr. Goodale says other parties to the case have not yet given any opinion. The Ukrainian aircraft carried passengers with various nationalities including Canadian, British, Iranian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Afghan.
On the morning of Wednesday, December 18, a Boeing 737 passenger aircraft of Ukraine International Airlines with 176 passengers heading to Kyiv in Ukraine was shot down by air defense fire from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after taking off from Tehran airport. After several days of insistence by Iranian officials, who claimed the aircraft crash was due to a technical fault, the Revolutionary Guards finally announced that they had mistakenly targeted the aircraft. However, this delay in revealing the truth and the regime’s deception caused public anger and widespread protests.
U.S. officials announced from the very first days of the aircraft crash that the reason was a missile strike and provided evidence to Canada and Ukraine.
Source: Voice of America
