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Saturday, 08 August 2020 (YJC)_ Iran has requested the United Nations to hold US responsible for the hostility of an Iranian plane by two US fighter jets in the skies over Syria last month.
In letter to UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, wrote on Friday that Iran “expresses its utter protest against this harassment of international law and will conduct and investigate the issue through relevant international bodies”.
He, moreover, added Mahan Airlines Airbus A310 en route from Tehran to Beirut on July 23 was “violently and unexpectedly obstructed” by two fighter jets while travelling through internationally specified air corridors in skies over Syria.
In his letter he also mentioned that “the pilot had to change altitude suddenly, in reaction to the offensive and aggressive maneuverings of the United States fighter jets, to save the civil aircraft passengers’ lives.”
“iran’s civil aviation organization contacted Syrian authorities, in line with provisions of the Convention on the International Civil Aviation, and requested a prompt and abrupt investigation of the incident” he noted.
Iranian authorities also launched an investigation after the plane returned home from Beirut, according to Takht-Ravanchi, and “the results of both investigations will be released after full revision of the collected information.”
“it is crystal clear that the harassment by two fighter jets is a blatant violation of the aviation security and freedom reflected in the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation and its annexes and a harassment of the 1971 Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation” the representative added.
On July 23, two US warplanes put the lives of many Iranian and Lebanese civilians in danger by violently and abruptly maneuvering near Iran-Beirut Mahan Air’s Flight 1152 in the skies over Syria. The airliner’s pilot suddenly reduces the altitude in order to avoid striking with the warplanes.
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