Winnipeg poised to approve memorial to victims of airliner shot down in Iran

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· Posted: May 07, 2025 3:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

The City of Winnipeg is poised to o.k. an humanities marker to honour the victims of the Ukrainian airliner changeable down aft taking disconnected from Tehran in 2020.

On Tuesday, metropolis council's enforcement argumentation committee volition see a proposal to spot a imperishable memorial to 176 people who died connected Jan. 8, 2020, erstwhile the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps changeable down Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752.

That day is present the National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Air Disasters. A marker slated for Scurfield Park successful Whyte Ridge volition commemorate the victims of PS752 with a partition featuring each of their names, according to a study to EPC.

Eight Manitobans were among the dead:

• Amirhossein Bahabadi Ghorbani.
• Farzaneh Naderi and her lad Noojan Sadr.
• Mohammad Mahdi Sadeghi, his wife Bahareh Hajesfandiari and their daughter Anisa Sadeghi.
• Forough Khadem.
• Amirhossein Ghassemi.

The metropolis received an online exertion to make the marker. The applicant is covering the outgo of the marker. The metropolis volition walk $1,000 connected a land-acknowledgment plaque.

The exertion notes the struggles of the Iranian diaspora successful Manitoba.

"The families of Flight PS752 victims person been refused justness since January 2020 contempt their nonstop efforts moving with antithetic governments and planetary organizations," the exertion reads. 

"The plaza volition not lone assistance radical silently mourn, but volition besides supply an situation for communities from countries that person challenging political, social, and quality rights situations to travel together, stock and learn."

Following the EPC vote, the memorial requires the support of metropolis assembly arsenic a whole.

WATCH | A January 2020 study connected Manitobans killed successful the shootdown of Flight PS752: