Iran to compensate Ukrainian plane crash victims, hold reparation discussion on October 18

Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation chief Touraj Dehqani Zanganeh on Wednesday, September 9 informed that Islamic Republic will be compensating families of Ukrainian plane crash victims.

As per Iranian News ncy IRNA, Zanganeh said Iran is open to paying "full compensation for what it has done."  Ukrainian passenger plane was mistakenly shot down earlier this year during a heated confrontation between Iran and US forces.  

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Iran accepts its mistake 

As per reports, Iran will be starting its new round of talks on October 18 over payment of dams. Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 was downed following an unfortunate set of human errors on part of Iranian forces.

Initially, Iran blamed crash on a technical problem. However, later, Iranian military admitted that y had mistaken passenger jet for a missile while locked in airstrikes with United States following death of major general Qassem Soleimani. 

Iran authorities said misalignment of air defence unit’s radar system was key “human error” that led to accident which had sparked global outr. 

In January, a United States-led airstrike at Baghdad international airport killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organisation. 

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had vowed in a televised speech that all those responsible for downing of passenger jet will be punished and brought to justice. He furr added that for people of Iran it is very important that whoever is responsible for negligence at any level must be punished.

However, Iran authorities arrested person who posted a video online showing missile attacking Boeing jetliner. person was taken into custody by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and will be facing charges related to national security. Iranian judiciary also anunced that y have also made arrest of several people over incident. 

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(Im Credits: AP)