The Islamic Republic of Iran announced Saturday it is ready to send abroad the black boxes of a plane downed by Iranian Revolutionary Forces near Tehran airport in January, killing 176 people.
Iranian state media reported that the country is ready to transfer abroad the black boxes of the Ukrainian plane, but they will be of "no help" in any investigation.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was hit by a missile and crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran international airport on January 8.
"Even though the investigation is nearly complete and the contents of the boxes will be of no help for the investigation, we are ready to give them to a third country or to a (foreign) company", Mohsen Baharvand, deputy foreign affairs minister, was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.
Baharvand said Iran has its own conditions for transferring the black boxes but didn’t elaborate further.
Mass protests broke out throughout Iran following the country’s final admission to downing the Ukrainian airliner.
Iran has confessed that two missiles were shot after three days of denial.
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.
