Iran agrees to pay families of victims on downed plane, says Sweden

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NEW: Iran agrees to compensate the families of the victims who were killed when a Ukrainian airliner was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran in January, Sweden FM Linde says.

Iran initially denied it had downed the passenger plane. But three days later, officials said Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forces accidentally shot down the jet amid a tense standoff with the U.S., calling it a “disastrous mistake.”a ballistic missile attack on U.S. military bases in Iraq. The missile barrage in Iraq was in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that took out Iran’s top military commander Gen. Qassim Suleimani.

Victims aboard the Ukrainian plane included citizens of Canada, Sweden, the U.K, Afghanistan and Ukraine. Out of 176 on board, 57 were Canadians. Many of the passengers were scheduled to catch a connecting flight to Toronto.Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif last week said his government would send the black boxes from the downed jetliner to France for analysis, according to Iran’s IRNA news agency.

 

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Iran with their stupid mistake

What a nice government, NOT!

Wow that was fast. It took us 8 yrs to apologize and pay compensation to Iranians whose families were killed when we shot down one of their airliners.

Good thing they still have some of those cash piles laying around.

They have plenty of Obama cash on hand.

We gonna finish watching JFK started....🐸🐸🐸🐝🐝🐝🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🍿🍿🍿

At least some resolution for families I know their love one will never come back but some thing finally.

That’s very Humane

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