Four countries take Iran to court over 2020 downing of Ukrainian passenger jet

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Flight PS752 was traveling from Tehran to Kyiv on Jan. 8, 2020, when it was shot down soon after takeoff.
43% : Following three days of denials in January 2020, Iran acknowledged that its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard mistakenly downed the Ukrainian plane with two surface-to-air missiles.
36% : They said they filed the case after Iran failed to respond to a December request for arbitration.
36% :The filing alleges that Iran withheld or destroyed evidence, blamed other countries and low-level Revolutionary Guard personnel, "threatened and harassed the families of the victims seeking justice" and failed to report details of the incident to the International Civil Aviation Organization.
36% : The downing happened on the same day that Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on U.S. troops in Iraq in retaliation for an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general.
36% : Last week, Iran filed a case against Canada linked to the downing, accusing Ottawa of ignoring state immunity in allowing relatives of terrorism victims to seek reparations from the Islamic Republic.
34% : Britain, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine launched a case against Iran at the United Nations' highest court Wednesday over the downing in 2020 of a Ukrainian passenger jet and the deaths of all 176 passengers and crew.
32% : According to the court filing published Wednesday, the four countries argue that Iran "failed to take all practicable measures to prevent the unlawful and intentional commission of an offense" and "failed to conduct an impartial, transparent, and fair criminal investigation and prosecution consistent with international law."
22% : The four countries want the International Court of Justice to rule that Iran illegally shot down the Ukraine International Airlines plane and to order Tehran to apologize and pay compensation to the families of the victims.
22% : The people killed included nationals and residents of the four countries taking legal action against Iran, as well as Afghanistan and Iran.

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