{"id":240173,"date":"2021-05-22T03:11:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=240173"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:54:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:54:50","slug":"iran-flight-752-disaster-deemed-iranian-terrorism-prompting-new-calls-for-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-flight-752-disaster-deemed-iranian-terrorism-prompting-new-calls-for-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Flight 752 Disaster Deemed Iranian Terrorism, Prompting New Calls for Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Thursday, Ontario\u2019s Superior Court of Justice issued a ruling in the case brought against the Iranian regime by four families who lost loved ones in the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752<\/a>. The incident took place on January 8, 2020, when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired two missiles at the flight that had just taken off from Tehran. Iranian authorities initially attempted to cover up the IRGC\u2019s culpability, then later attributed the missile strikes to human error. But Thursday\u2019s ruling by Justice Edward Belobaba holds that the incident was a deliberate act of terrorism and that Tehran should be held accountable with asset seizures leading to compensation for victims\u2019 families<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The flight was carrying 176 passengers and crew members, all of whom were killed in the strike and resulting crash. The Canadian venue for the just-concluded court case reflects the fact that 55 of the passengers were citizens of Canada while 83 others had ties to the country through permanent residency or family relations. The United Kingdom, Sweden, and Ukraine each lost residents to the disaster as well, and all four countries have participated in efforts to secure a full accounting of the circumstances leading up to it, with an eye toward establishing the Iranian government\u2019s level of culpability.<\/p>\n

\nThose efforts have faced a number of obstacles throughout the 16-month investigation process, with Iranian regime authorities initially promoting a false explanation and later withholding the flight data recorder from civil aviation authorities with the means of analyzing its contents. Within hours of the crash, the regime issued official statements attributing it to a \u201ctechnical problem.\u201d But the following day, American and European intelligence agencies cited satellite imagery and other data sources as justifying the conclusion that the airliner had been struck by at least one missile. These statements were backed up by civilian recordings from inside Iran, which showed the moment of impact, followed by a fireball rising from the crash site.<\/p>\n

About three days after the strike, the regime authorities altered their cover story to accommodate \u201chuman error\u201d but continued their efforts to exert tight control over information that reached the international community. At least one person was arrested on suspicion of having leaked one of the videos that exposed Tehran\u2019s initial lie<\/a>. Furthermore, a spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary acknowledged on January 14 that at least 30 individuals had been arrested for taking part in protests that sprang up across more than a dozen provinces, largely centered on university campuses, in response to the regime\u2019s aborted cover-up.<\/p>\n

The actual number of these arrests was likely much higher, especially considering that protests in question tended to feature calls for the resignation of all leading officials and even for a wholesale change of government. In this way, the Iranian people\u2019s response to the Flight 752 disaster ended up being closely linked to at least two prior uprisings, which similarly condemned both the \u201chardline\u201d supreme leader and the \u201creformist\u201d president while seemingly endorsing a message of support for regime change.<\/p>\n

\nThe January 2020 protests were somewhat smaller in scale than those which took place in January 2018 and November 2019 but has still been cited by activist groups as the last in a series of \u201cuprisings\u201d that were supposedly put on pause the following month by the official start of the Iranian branch of the coronavirus pandemic. The country\u2019s leading pro-democracy opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>, has suggested that in absence of the pandemic, the unrest would have continued recurring throughout 2020, in response to persistent crises regarding Tehran\u2019s domestic conduct as well as its support for terrorism.<\/p>\n

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The MEK was also among the first entities to explicitly describe the downing of Flight 752 as an intentional act of terrorism. Statements<\/a> cited Tehran\u2019s initial cover-up and the advanced nature of IRGC missile programs as evidence against claims that the incident was simply an accident. The Ontario court\u2019s ruling took much the same position, with Justice Belobaba saying, \u201cI find on a balance of probabilities that the missile attacks on Flight 752 were intentional and directly caused the deaths of all on board.\u201dThe January 2020 missile strike is by no means the only such evidence to emerge in recent years. In 2018 alone, Iranian operatives were caught plotting terrorist activities in at least three European countries, leading to the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Albania, France, and the Netherlands, and also to the arrest and prosecution of one diplomat who was determined to be the mastermind of a plot to bomb a venue just outside of Paris.<\/p>\n

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\nThat individual, Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court in February. His trial established that his efforts to attack the National Council of Resistance of Iran\u2019s gathering of Iranian expatriates and Western dignitaries was based on orders from high within the Iranian regime. Investigators also found that Assadi had recently made contact with dozens of fellow operatives all across continental Europe, some of whom received payment for services as yet unspecified.<\/p>\n

MEK activists and affiliated groups have issued numerous statements in response to these details, urging Western governments to take further action to counter the underlying threat, as by designating the Iranian Intelligence Ministry and the Revolutionary Guards as terrorist entities. The push to blacklist the IRGC has already been given new traction by the Ontario court\u2019s ruling, with Canada\u2019s Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs calling it \u201canother confirmation that the IRGC should be listed as a terrorist entity by the Trudeau government, something it has refused to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The MEK has long criticized<\/a> other Western governments for similarly refusing to hold Iranian terrorist entities accountable. It has often attributed that refusal to a miscalculation of the risks associated with exerting new pressures on the Iranian regime. Those risks were arguably diminished in the immediate aftermath of the Flight 752 disaster, as Iran\u2019s domestic population revolted against the authorities responsible for it. The MEK now predicts that the regime\u2019s domestic vulnerability will once again be amplified by public protests, which the NCRI\u2019s President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi has described as \u201crising from the ashes\u201d of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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