Two newlywed Iranian Canadian couples among those killed in crash
by Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times
Jan 10, 2020
3 minutes
They met as graduate students in Montreal, drawn there by Concordia University's well-regarded engineering program. They had both landed good jobs in the industry. They recently bought a house in Montreal. They had flown home to Iran for their wedding, attended by family.
"They were going to invite us for a housewarming party this new year," said their friend, Ali Dolatabadi. "He was very excited."
The couple, Siavash Ghafouri-Azar and Sara Mamani, was one of at least two pairs of newlyweds on board a Ukraine International Airlines jetliner
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