An independent Canadian report on Tuesday said Iran is not conducting its investigation into the downing of a civilian airliner in January appropriately and many questions remain unanswered.
According to Reuters, Former Canadian cabinet minister Ralph Goodale, charged with helping the victims’ families and examining how to deal with similar disasters in future, said “many of the key details of this horrific event” remain unknown.
“Iran...has not conducted its investigations (safety, criminal or otherwise) in a truly independent, objective and transparent manner, and answers to critical questions” are absent, he wrote in the report.
Last month both the United Nations aviation agency and Ukraine complained separately about how Iran was conducting the probe.
“There’s not much of a track record to base any optimism on so far,” Goodale said by phone when asked about the chances of Tehran carrying out a fully transparent investigation, Reuters said.
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. All 176 passengers died immediately.
