The judiciary information service in Iran reported late on Sunday that the decision was delivered after a radical examination of the case and 20 court docket periods.

The suspects within the case had been army officers working at an Iranian protection system command on the time of the airplane’s downing.

The verdict acknowledged that the commander of the missile operation had thought-about the Ukrainian airplane to be a cruise missile and ordered to shoot it down with out permission from larger authorities within the aviation command.

The first defendant acquired a 13-year jail sentence, and the opposite suspects acquired jail sentences of as much as three years. The court docket added that the verdicts may very well be appealed inside 20 days.

The downing of the airplane in January 2020 brought about the deaths of all 176 passengers aboard, and the incident has been one of the crucial difficult judicial procedures in Iran lately.

Shortly after taking off from IKA on January 8, 2020, Ukraine’s passenger airplane was reportedly transferring very near a delicate army location belonging to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) when it was shot upon.