OTTAWA—The federal government has named a legal expert as senior adviser to Global Affairs Canada on the shooting down of a passenger jet in Iran that killed 176 people. The government says in a release that Payam Akhavan, Senior Fellow at Massey College and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Toronto, will provide advice on all matters pertaining to Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau says Akhavan will help Global Affairs Canada’s legal team as it prepares for upcoming negotiations with Iran on reparations and other possible measures. Fifty-five Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents were among those killed when the jet was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile minutes after taking off from Tehran on Jan. 8, 2020. Akhavan was the first legal adviser to the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and also served with the UN …