Iran challenges four countries in UN court over jet it downed in 2020 [Video]

Iran on Thursday filed a challenge at the International Court of Justice against Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and Britain over a UN aviation body’s ruling against it related to the shooting down of a passenger plane in 2020.

The four countries had citizens on a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 that was downed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on January 8, 2020. All 176 people on board were killed.

Three days later, Iran admitted that its military fired two surface-to-air missiles at the Kyiv-bound plane but said it was by mistake.

Iran is appealing a March decision of the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) over the jet’s downing.

The Montreal-based ICAO decided it had jurisdiction to rule on a case brought by the four countries against Iran, that accuses Tehran of “using weapons against a civil aircraft in flight”.

Iran called on the ICJ to rule that ICAO did not …