Ukraine and Canada slam Iranian report into 2020 plane disaster

Ukraine and Canada rejected an Iranian report into last year’s shooting down of a Ukraine International Airlines passenger plane as cynical, incomplete and aimed at absolving the Islamic Republic of responsibility for the disaster. The report, published by the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran on Wednesday, contained “no hard facts or evidence,” Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau and the country’s Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said. They said they “remain deeply concerned about a lack of convincing information” on what led the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to strike the Boeing 737 plane with two missiles in the early hours of Jan. 8 2020, shortly after taking off from Tehran. Canada is set to release the findings of its own investigation within the coming days, according to the two Canadian ministers.<br/>