The head of Iran’s insurance regulation agency said European insurance companies, not Iranian ones, should pay compensation for the loss of a Ukraine International Airlines passenger aircraft shot down near Tehran in January.
“The Ukrainian plane is insured by European companies in Ukraine and not by Iranian companies. Therefore, the compensation should be paid by those European companies,” Gholamreza Soleimani, head of Iran’s Central Insurance Organization, said Monday, according to Iran’s state-news affiliated Young Journalists Club. Reuters first brought the quote to light.
