Bloomberg - Iran�s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said his country won�t let the flight recorders of the Ukrainian jet that was shot down in January leave Iran and be decoded without the presence of Islamic Republic envoys.

�We have a right to keep the black boxes ourselves. We have a right to be present during any assessment of the black boxes. We certainly won�t allow for the black boxes to be given to others so they can be read without us,� Zarif told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting in Tehran, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

Zarif said Iran is in touch with the Ukrainian government and various laboratories, trying to establish to what extent it can ensure its on-site involvement at every stage of the investigation.