Iran’s civil aviation authority says it will keep working with other countries investigating the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane last month and it has called on all parties to avoid politicising the issue.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards shot down the airliner on January 8, killing all 176 people onboard.
They later admitted they had done so by mistake while on high alert hours after they had fired at US targets in retaliation for a US strike that killed Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani.
On Monday, Tehran blamed Ukrainian authorities for leaking what it described as confidential evidence and said it would no longer share material with Ukraine from the investigation.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said on Sunday that the leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran showed that Iran knew immediately it had shot down the plane despite denying it for days.
Read the article in The Standard (AAP).