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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Baharvand dismissed an official Canadian report on the Ukrainian plane crash near Tehran in January 2020 as “highly politicized”.
“Legally, the Canadian authorities have no unilateral and arbitrary reports or comments on reports of aircraft accidents in the jurisdiction of another country,” the news agency Xinhua Baharvand quoted on Friday.
On Thursday, the Ottawa government released a report by a Canadian forensics team on the Ukrainian Boeing 737-800, which was launched on Aug.
The Canadian team wrote in their report that they “found no evidence that Iranian officials ordered the shooting or that it was deliberate”.
However, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized the Iranian civil and military authorities in the report, blaming “their ruthlessness, incompetence and wanton disregard for human life” for the incident.
In response, Baharvand described such criticism in the Canadian report as “technically unfounded and therefore unacceptable”.
Iran sent the draft of its report to participating countries prior to its publication and within the legal deadline, and those countries sent their comments on the report to Tehran, he noted.
The technical assessments officially submitted by Canada did not include “general and incomprehensible” comments, which were released on Thursday, he added.
“According to the Chicago Accords, (Canadians) should have new information if they offer it to the Iranian investigation team, rather than fueling useless media and political controversy,” Baharvand noted.
The deputy minister also denied a threat from Trudeau to bring the downing of the Ukrainian plane to the International Court of Justice.
“Iran has fulfilled its commitments in accordance with international law and will continue to pursue and implement its commitments according to its own timeframe,” said Baharvand.
In Iran’s official report of the crash, the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization blamed a misaligned radar and a mistake by an air defense company for the incident.
On April 6, an Iranian military prosecutor announced that ten officers would be charged with shooting down the plane.
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