⁍ Iran’s judiciary said on Saturday that passengers of an airliner can sue the U.S. military for damages in Iranian courts.

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⁍ Several passengers on the Mahan Air flight heading from Tehran to Beirut were injured on Thursday after the pilot rapidly changed altitude to avoid collision with the U.S. jet.

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⁍ The U.S. military said its F-15 was at a safe distance and the fighter was conducting a visual inspection of the airliner as it passed near the Tanf garrison in Syria.

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– Iran’s judiciary says passengers on an airliner “harassed” by an American fighter jet this week can sue the US military in Iranian courts for “moral and physical damages.” The Mahan Air flight was flying from Tehran to Beirut when it was forced to change altitude to avoid a collision with an F-15 fighter jet over Syria on Thursday, Reuters reports. The US military says the F-15 was conducting a visual inspection of the airliner as it passed near the Tanf garrison in Syria, home to US forces. “All passengers on Mahan Air Flight 1152, Iranians and non-Iranian, can sue the terrorist US military— commanders, perpetrators, supervisors, and deputies—in Iranian courts for moral and physical damages,” the head of the judiciary’s human rights office was quoted as saying by semi-official ILNA news agency. He said complainants could also take an international legal route through the International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN agency that oversees international civil aviation agreements. He said Iranian courts follow laws that deal with human rights violations and “adventurist and terrorist acts of the United States in the region.” It was not clear if any passenger would sue the US military. The incident was the latest in tensions between Tehran and Washington since President Trump withdrew the US from Iran’s nuclear deal with six powers and reimposed sanctions that have battered Iran’s economy. Footage of the inside of the airliner broadcast by Iranian state TV on Friday showed a passenger lying immobile on the floor and another with a wounded nose and forehead.