Ukraine plane: Iran facing legal action over downing of Flight PS752

Iran is facing ineligible enactment astatine the International Court of Justice implicit the shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines formation PS752 successful January 2020.

Four nations - Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the UK - are seeking damages for the families of the 176 radical connected committee who were killed.

The level was deed by 2 missiles fired by a Revolutionary Guards aerial defence portion aft it took disconnected from Tehran.

Three days later, Iran admitted mistakenly shooting down the plane.

The Revolutionary Guards' Aerospace Force said an aerial defence portion had mistaken the Boeing 737-800 for a US missile.

In April a tribunal successful Iran sentenced 10 equipped forces unit to situation but victims' families rejected the verdicts arsenic "meaningless and unacceptable".

The 4 nations - whose citizens oregon residents were killed successful the incidental - accidental in the exertion to the International Court of Justice that Iran "violated a bid of obligations" nether a normal connected civilian aviation by shooting down the jet.

They impeach Iran of failing to instrumentality each practicable measures to forestall the downing of the plane, which happened during a clip of precocious hostility betwixt Iran and the US.

Iran past failed to behaviour an impartial, transparent and just transgression probe and prosecution, the radical says.

The countries privation the tribunal to bid that Iran publically acknowledges its "internationally wrongful acts", apologise to the families and supply assurances that it volition not hap again.

The exertion besides asks the tribunal to "order afloat reparation for each wounded caused", calling connected Iran to instrumentality the missing belongings of the victims and to supply "full compensation" to the families.

In December 2022, the radical jointly requested that Iran taxable to binding arbitration, arguing the missiles that deed the formation were launched "unlawfully and intentionally".

At the clip a spokesperson for Canada's overseas affairs ministry told the BBC the Iranian authorities had six months to respond. This deadline has present passed, prompting the countries to determination towards ineligible action.