The situation inside Iran should not be played for domestic political point-scoring in Washington or anywhere else.
Ukraine says it is investigating whether the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile or hit by a bomb.
Ukraine's PM has deflected questions about a prisoner swap with Russia that may affect the MH17 investigation.
Investigators have released a series of phone intercepts which they say reveal Moscow's influence over pro-Russian rebels accused of downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne took issue with the prisoner-swap between Russia and Ukraine because it included Vladimir Tsemakh,who will be repatriated to Russia and may escape any penalties.
''You have no permission to be here"could be the motto of Paul McGeough's career as a foreign correspondent. We're very lucky he ignored such warnings.
As tensions heat up over Iran,airlines including Qantas are changing their flight routes. Who decides where planes can and can't fly – and where is strictly off-limits?
MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine during by Russian-backed separatists,killing all 298 people on board.
The passage of five years today since the attack on MH17 doesn't change too much say the families who lost loved ones.
A much-loved car owned by a woman who was killed on flight MH17 sat in a corporate car park in the Netherlands for years before it was brought to her parents in Western Australia,where she had been bound.
Five Australian families,who had seven relatives on the flight shot down in Ukraine in 2014,have received compensation.