Canadian court awards C$107 million to families of airliner downed by Iran

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Jan 3 (Reuters) - A court in Ontario, Canada, has awarded C$107 million ($83.94 million), plus interest, to the families of six people who died when the Iranian Revolutionary Guards downed a Ukraine International Airlines plane near Tehran two years ago.

Iran shot down the airliner in January 2020. All 176 people onboard were killed, including 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents.

The six family members awarded compensation by the Ontario court lost spouses, siblings, children, nieces and nephews aboard Flight 752, their lawyer, Mark Arnold, said in a statement on Monday. They had filed a civil lawsuit against Iran and other officials they believe were to blame for the incident.

The lawyer said his team will look to seize Iranian assets in Canada and abroad. He said Iran has oil tankers in other countries and his team will be looking to seize whatever it can to pay what the families are owed.

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January 3, 2022
4:10 PM EST
Last Updated 2 hours ago
By Kanishka Singh


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/canadian-court-awards-c107-million-families-airliner-downed-by-iran-2022-01-03/

[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. How much did Iranian courts award to the victims of the Iranian Air flight downed by

an American cruiser in the Gulf of Oman? Don’t know myself, it’s irrelevant, it is all the horrible result of horrible misunderstandings thereby permitting men with little balls to use war machines as proxies for bigger balls.

“The report found that while the shooting down of Ukrainian International Airlines flight 752 had not been premeditated, it did not absolve Iranian officials of responsibility for the incident.

Iran admitted it shot down the airliner shortly after takeoff from Tehran in January 2020 and blamed a "disastrous mistake" by forces on high alert during a confrontation with the United States.

At the time, Iran was on edge about possible attacks after it fired missiles at Iraqi bases housing U.S. forces in retaliation for the killing days before of its most powerful military commander, Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. missile strike at Baghdad airport.”

[Eugene]

2. Iran took the case to the World Court. The two sides eventually settled.

The U.S. and Iran eventually settled for $131.8 million, after the U.S. initially offered compensation ex-gratia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/02/23/us-and-iran-settle-financial-claims/800d7cda-c906-44fa-aeda-e710bfc1867f/

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. Eventually, ye... but a stark contrast, among others, is how America denied liability for many years...

claiming self defence without shred of evidence of threat … built an entire big lie around that…Iran full confession and apology within days.