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Iran taps into emergency fund to compensate Ukraine flight victims

The Islamic Republic is to pay families of the victims of the Ukrainian flight it downed earlier this year. But the payment has been secured not from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for the missile attack but from an emergency fund meant for the public interest.
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The Iranian government says it will tap into its National Development Fund  to pay compensation to the families of the victims of a downed Ukraine International Airlines flight. The jetliner crashed outside the capital, Tehran, in January. None of the 176 people on board survived the missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The exact amount of the compensation for each individual has yet to be specified, an issue that remains a sticking point in negotiations between the Iranian side and Ukraine, the country that owned the aircraft. As the majority of the victims were Iranian Canadians, Ottawa has also been involved in the settlement talks.

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