Iran agrees to send black boxes of crashed jet to Ukraine - official

FILE PHOTO: People place flowers and candles as they commemorate victims of the Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 plane disaster, in front of the Iranian embassy in Kiev, Ukraine February 17, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - Iran's aviation authority has agreed to send black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner to Kiev for analysis, Iran's representative at the United Nations' aviation agency told Reuters.

Farhad Parvaresh, who heads Iran's delegation at the UN's Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization, said Tehran's civil aviation authority had also invited other interested countries to participate in reading the data.

The move ends a two-month stand-off over the fate of the recordings from the jet, which was shot down by the Iranian military on Jan 8 with the loss of all 176 people on board.

(This story corrects official's first name to Farhad, not Farhard in 2nd paragraph)

(Reporting by Tim Hepher; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)