Tehran will not compensate Ukraine International Airlines for its plane Iranian Revolutionary Guards downed in January, officials said.
Iran said the passenger jet was insured by European firms, therefore the insurer must pay.
The head of Iran’s Central Insurance Organization Gholamreza Soleimani said on Monday that “the Ukrainian plane is insured by European companies in Ukraine and not by Iranian (insurance) companies.”
“Therefore, compensation should be paid by those European companies,” he added.
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards shot down the Ukraine International Airlines flight with a ground-to-air missile on Jan. 8 just after the plane took off from Tehran.
The incident occurred in the tense hours as Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were carrying out “revenge” attacks on American military bases in Iraq in response to the death of the regime’s top commander Qassem Soleimani a week earlier in US strikes in Baghdad.
