Canada, Iran hold rare call as plane crash investigators release initial findings

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne has held a rare phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart, a day after a Ukrainian International Airlines plane crashed near Tehran with 63 Canadians on board, Iranian media say.

A team from Ukraine, which has opened a criminal investigation into the crash, was arrived in Tehran on Thursday, and was waiting for permission to access the site. Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's Security Council, said officials had several working theories regarding the crash, including the possibility that the plane had been struck by a missile.

Iran has said it will not allow U.S. participation in the investigation, and will not hand the black boxes over to Boeing. Abas Aslani, editor-in-chief of the Tehran-based Iran Front Page news website, posted on Twitter that Mr. Champagne and Mr. Zarif had spoken by phone Thursday morning to discuss “the Ukranian plane crash & some other issues.”

The lack of a diplomatic presence in Tehran looms as a major impediment to Canada offering consular support to victims of the crash. The plane took off just hours after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired a dozen missiles at two U.S. military bases in neighbouring Iraq. Mr. Trudeau said he condemns the missile attacks but is relieved that all personnel deployed in Iraq are safe. There was no immediate evidence of a connection between the hostilities and what happened to Flight 752.

In the initial Globe story the authors (incorrectly) drew a link between this aircraft and 737 Max (and were called out for it). Now the same writers accuse Iran authorities of making that same connection. Shameful, irresponsible, second rate. cdnfp cdnpoli IranPlaneCrash

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