10 indicted in Iran over shooting down of passenger plane

Debris at the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, south-west of Tehran, Iran (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Ten officials have been indicted in Iran over the 2020 military shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 people, a prosecutor said.

The announcement comes just as Tehran begins indirect negotiations with the West over its collapsed nuclear deal with world powers.