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Here's everything we know about the Canadian victims of the Iran plane crash

In total 63 passengers on the doomed airliner were Canadian, and 138 passengers were connecting to Canada

January 8, 2020, 7:08 PM EST,https://nationalpost.com/news/...the-iran-plane-crash

A Ukrainian passenger plane crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board. According to the airline, 63 passengers were Canadian. Since the news broke, stories from the families and loved ones of the victims have been shared across platforms. Here’s everything we know about the Canadian victims so far.

Alberta

Pedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand were professors at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Engineering. They were on the plane with their two daughters, Daria Mousavi, 14, and Dorina Mousavi, 9.

ShekoufehChoupannejad, 56, was a gynecologist working in Edmonton. She was accompanied by her two daughters, University of Alberta science student Saba Saadat, 21, and University of Alberta psychology graduate Sara Saadat, 23.

Pouneh Gorji, 25, and Arash Pourzarabi, 26, were newlyweds returning to Edmonton from their wedding celebration on Friday. They were both graduate students at the University of Alberta.

Nasim Rahmanifar and Amir Hossein Saeedinia were graduate students at the University of Alberta, but it’s unclear if they have any relationship to each other.

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British Columbia

Delaram Dadashnejad, 26, was studying English language at Langara College in B.C.

Ayesha Pourghaderi, 36, lived in North Vancouver. She was accompanied on the plane by her daughter Fatemah Pasavand, 17, lived in North Vancouver. They are both survived by their husband and father Amir Pasavand who owns a bakery.

Mohammad Saket was an engineer living in North Vancouver. He was accompanied on the plane by his wife Fatemah Kazerani, who worked as a dental hygienist.

The president of the Vancouver-based Civic Association of Iranian-Canadians, Kei Esmaeilpour, said a Vancouver family of three was killed in the crash.

Esmaeilpour said Ardalan Ebnoddin Hamidi, an engineer, and Niloofar Razzaghi, who had just completed university training to become a teacher, lived in Vancouver with their 15-year-old son Hamyar Ebnoddin Hamidi.

Esmaeilpour said the family was vacationing in Iran.

He said he worked with Ebnoddin Hamidi and the two had served on the civic association together for at least a decade.

Manitoba

Global reports that young Winnipeg girl Anisa Sadeghi, as well as her parents Mehdi Sadeghi, 43 and Bahareh Haj Esfandiari, 41, all perished in the crash. The station reported that their deaths had been confirmed by Welcome Place, where Bahareh Haj Esfandiari worked.

CBC reports that Forough Khadem, another victim, was a University of Manitoba alumnus with a PhD in immunology. “Forough was one of my best PhD trainees, an outstanding scientist and above an amazing human being. I am utterly devastated and trying to grapple with this,” Jude Uzonna, an associate professor at the university, told the CBC.

Amir Shirzadi, a board member with the Manitoba Iranian Student Association, said his good friend Amirhossien Ghasemi was on the plane. Shirzadi said his friend was visiting family in Iran and was on his way back to Winnipeg. Ghasemi was a graduate student in biomedical engineering at the University of Manitoba. “I saw him before he left the country,” said Shirzadi, who added that the two played games together.

“I can’t use past tense. I think he’s coming back. We play again. We talk again. It’s too difficult to use past tense, too difficult. No one can believe it.”

Farzahen Naderi, 38, lived in Winnipeg. She was accompanied on the plane by her son Nozhan Sadr, 11.

Amirhossien Ghorbani, 21, was reported as being from Winnipeg.

Ontario

Parisa Eghbalian, 42, was a dentist working at Aurora E&E Dentistry in Aurora, Ont. She was on the plane with her daughter, Reera Esmaeilion, 9.

Ghanimat Azdahri, 36, a PhD student in the department of geography, environment and geomatics at the University of Guelph, and Milad Ghasemi Ariani, 32, a PhD student in the marketing and consumer studies, were identified by the university, as well as Azdahri’s spouse Hamed Alibeiki.

Mother Sahar Haghjoo, 37, was on a trip home to Toronto with her only daughter, eight-year-old Elsa Jadidi. The father and family had arrived a week earlier from Iran, excited to welcome Haghjoo and Jadidi back, according to the Globe and Mail.

Suzan Golbabapour, 49, worked as a real estate agent at Remax in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto. She lived with her husband but had family back in Iran.

Iman Ghaderpanah, 34, and Parinaz Ghaderpanah, 33, were active in the Iranian-Canadian community, particularly the charitable organization Tirgan that celebrates Iranian culture and arts. “We will always remember Parinaz for her beautiful soul, contagious energy, warm positive attitude, and unconditional dedication. Their untimely departure leaves a permanent void in our hearts,” the organization posted to Facebook.

Evin Arsalani, 30, traveled to Iran with her husband Hiva Molani, 38, and one-year-old daughter Kurdia Molani for a wedding last month, but stayed in the country for Arsalani’s birthday on January 2, according to 680 News.

Zeynab Asadi Lari and Mohammad Asadi Lari were brother and sister. Both had studied at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto.

Iman Aghabali and Mehdi Eshaghian were engineering students at McMaster’s automotive resource centre in Ontario. The McMaster Iranian Graduate Student Society plans to host a vigil for the two students.

Toronto residents Afifa Tarbhai and her mother Alina Tarbhai, as well as Asghar Dhirani, were all on board the doomed flight, City News reports. Alina Tarbhai worked for the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation.

“Alina was a valued employee, and part of a tightly-knit team at Provincial Office,” the group’s president Harvey Bischof said in a statement, according to City News. “She was respected and well-liked by all. Her passing represents a profound loss for all of us who worked with her.”

570 News reports that Marzieh Foroutan and Mansour Esnaashary Esfahani, also among the dead, were PhD students at the University of Waterloo.

Zahra Naghibi was a research assistant at the University of Windsor’s Turbulence and Energy Lab in Ontario and was the chair of the Windsor chapter of an engineering society group, according to her LinkedIn.

Mohammad Salehe was a software engineer and developer who began his PhD at the University of Toronto more than a year ago, the Globe and Mail reported. He had gotten married just before arriving in Toronto.

Maya Zibae was a Grade 10 student at Northern Secondary School in Toronto.

Quebec

Siavash Ghafouri-Azar was an engineer who worked at Bombardier in Montreal and had studied at Concordia University. He and Sara Mamani, also of Montreal, had recently married and were in Iran for ceremonies related to their marriage, according to a close friend and co-worker.

Arvin Morattab studied at the École de technologie supérieure in Montreal and was visiting Iran on holiday. In September, he had been hired as a senior power engineer by Eaton, a company based in Ireland.

Aida Farzaneh, a building energy specialist, worked for the Montreal architectural firm Lemay and was a lecturer at ETS.

Mohammed Moeini worked with Bombardier Recreational Products in Valcourt. Moeini, 35, had been in Quebec for four years and had returned to Iran for a family visit over the holidays.

Nova Scotia

Sharieh Faghihi, 58, was a dentist who practiced in Halifax.

So sad, families gone just like that. 

I have to say Iran has some beautiful women. I worked with one and lived with another, they were both va va voooom.

So sad!! My condolences to all the Families

I did not realize the 737 Max was flying!!

Nehru posted:

I did not realize the 737 Max was flying!!

It was not a max. Just a 737. Did Iran take down this plane ? 

My bad,

According to Aviation experts, it was not shot down.

They were all young and educated.

Alberta newlyweds married for just a week died in Iran plane crash

By Maham Abedi Global News, Posted January 9, 2020 10:19 a, Updated January 9, 2020 4:31 pm, Source - https://globalnews.ca/news/638...erta-newlyweds-dead/

EDITOR’S NOTE: Community leaders initially believed that 27 people with Edmonton connections died in the plane crash. However, they and Global News have confirmed 13. We have updated this story to reflect the new information.

Arash Pourzarabi and Pouneh Gorji were married on New Year’s Day. Just a week later, the newlyweds died while aboard a Ukraine International Airlines flight that crashed just outside of Tehran.

Pourzarabi and Gorji were on their way home to Edmonton, where they were both completing their master’s degrees in computer science, friends of the couple said.

Amir Forouzandeh and Amir Samani studied with the couple. Both were invited to the wedding but were unable to attend.

Forouzandeh described the duo as the “kindest souls I knew.”

Arash Pourzarabi and Pouneh Gourji, seen here in their wedding photo. Credit: Akhavan Studio

“I wasn’t able to go back, but they had their wedding on Jan. 1 and they were planning to come back on the 8th, and, of course, we all know what happened,” Forouzandeh said.

Samani and Forouzandeh said the couple was really excited to be married and that loved ones from around the globe attended their wedding in Iran.

Samani added that he can’t believe what happened.

“I’m a big denier right now,” he said.

“I even check my phone to see, is he going back online again?”

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Samani said the newlyweds had planned to have a “small ceremony” in Edmonton with their friends.

“I’m still looking forward to that,” Samani said.

Arash Pourzarabi and Pouneh Gorji with friends in a supplied photo. Handout

He said the group of friends, all far from home in Iran, found comfort together.

“Research meetings together, talking about our research, talking about the plans, the things that we wanted to do…,” he said, succumbing to tears.

The University of Alberta paid tribute to “several members” of its community who died in the crash in a statement on Wednesday. Some of the other victims were reported to have travelled to Iran for the wedding.

“I want to express my heartfelt grief. Words simply cannot express the loss I know we all are feeling,” the university’s president, David Turpin, said in a press release.

“On behalf of the University of Alberta, I wish to extend our deepest condolences to the families, friends, colleagues and loved ones of the victims of this tragedy. You have the sincerest sympathy and support of all those on campus.”

Many of the Canadian residents aboard the downed flight were from Alberta. The flight claimed the lives of 63 Canadians, and at least 13 are reported to have connections to Edmonton, according to both the current and former presidents of the Iranian Heritage Society of Edmonton.

Vigil held to pay tribute to Edmonton victims of Iran plane crash

 

The province’s premier, Jason Kenney, said at least 30 Albertans were killed. He described it as “one of the largest single disasters for Albertans in our history.”

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“We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that a number of distinguished Albertans were aboard that flight.”

— With files from Global News reporters Karen Bartko and Emily Mertz