Radio Free Europe 2/3/2020
Tehran Stops Sharing Evidence From Plane Crash With Kyiv After Leak
An Iranian official says his country will stop sharing with Kyiv evidence from the crash of a Ukrainian airliner shot down near Tehran last month after audio from the investigation showing the authorities were aware immediately that a missile may have downed the plane was leaked by Ukrainian media.
The semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted Hassan Rezaifar, the director in charge of accident investigations at Iran's Civil Aviation Organization, as saying on February 3 the move was linked to the audio leak from a day earlier.
"The technical investigation team of the Ukrainian airline crash, in a strange move, published the secret audio file of the communications of a pilot of a plane that was flying at the same time as the Ukrainian plane," Rezaifar said, according to Mehr.
"This action by the Ukrainians led to us not sharing any more evidence with them," he added.
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