Sweden has said that Iran has agreed to compensate the families of the foreign victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down outside Tehran in January.
Al Jazeera: Iran agrees to compensate downed plane victims’ families
Portraits of nine Ukrainian victims of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crash in the Iranian capital of Tehran are displayed at a memorial at Boryspil International Airport outside Kyiv on Jan. 8, 2020. All nine were crew members. There were also two other Ukrainian victims. The Ukrainian airliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 people on board in a disaster that struck a region already rattled by heightened military tensions.
