not sure if posted yet, passenger Mojtaba Abbasnezhad listed as PhD student at U of Toronto. According to his FB graduated there in Electrical Engineering. Worked for a company in Dubai as a "digital engineer" called SAMIM Group until April 2019. Seems a spoofy company.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/01/08/Passenger-on-Ukrainian-plane-tweets-forgive-me-hours-before-deadly-crash-in-Iran.html

More info on Canadians killed here. Many young but also Profs

Article also says

“The flight was a popular transit route for Canadians traveling to Iran, in the absence of direct flights, and carried many students and academics heading home from the holidays. Canada broke off diplomatic relations with Iran in 2012.”

https://canoe.com/news/national/canadians-killed-in-iran-plan-crash-include-university-profs-students

Crash victims

Sadeghi whole family looks like:

Sadighi Neda 1969 - As an eye surgeon, Dr. Sadighi started her career at well-known hospitals in Tehran as well as her own private ophthalmology clinic. She passionately treated a wide range of eye diseases with a special focus on Cataract surgery, Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy, and Dry Eye. Moreover, she gained outstanding expertise on managing refractive errors with performing LASIK surgery as well as prescribing appropriate glasses and specialty contact lenses. Dr. Sadighi was devotedly practicing ophthalmology until she immigrated to Canada.

https://www.drsadighieyecare.com/about-us

Sadeghi Mirmohammad 1976

Hamid Mirmohammad Sadeghi

Faculty Member of Isfahan University of Technology

Verified email at cc.iut.ac.ir - Homepage

Microwave & AntennaTelecommunicationRoboticsRadar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sPxG-mMAAAAJ&hl=en

Sahand Sadeghi

Phd Student of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University

Verified email at clemson.edu

Origami EngineeringAdaptive StructuresNonlinear DynamicsNonlinear Vibrations

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z0iWOj8AAAAJ&hl=en

Sadeghi Alvand 1990

Alvand Sadeghi

University of Tehran | UT · Department of Industrial Engineering

MS

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alvand_Sadeghi

Sadeghi Anisa 2009

Pic here, interesting other info on same family not included

secrets?

https://globalnews.ca/news/6381783/at-least-6-from-winnipeg-believed-to-be-on-plane-that-crashed-in-tehran-killing-63-canadians/

Wonder if all these ppl chose to get on that plane?