Updated Mar 05, 2021 | 17:26 IST
Plot to hijack Iran Air plane flying 100 passengers from Ahwaz to Mashhad was foiled by the IRGC, Iran said on Friday. Representational image | Photo Credit: AP
Tehran: A plot to hijack an Iran Air plane flying 100 passengers from Ahwaz to the holy city of Mashhad was foiled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of the Iranian Armed Forces, Iran said on Friday. Iranian Republic News Agency (IRNA) said that the plane made an emergency landing at the central Iranian city of Isfahan and the alleged perpetrator was arrested.
According to IRGC, the Fokker 100 aircraft, flight number 334, took off from Ahwaz airport after a 10-minute delay, at 10.10 pm on Thursday night.
On Monday, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi announced that Iran had exposed “the main perpetrator” of the November 2020 assassination of prominent Iranian nuclear.
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Tehran [Iran], February 12 (ANI): Iran has slammed Pakistan for harbouring terrorists and terror outfits after Jaish ul-Adl, a Pakistan-based terrorist group, claimed responsibility for kidnapping Iranian soldiers.
Iran shares a nearly 1,000 km border with Pakistan. In recent years, Iran has witnessed several cross-border attacks carried out by Jaish al-Adl and other affiliated groups, which Iran considers as a terrorist group.
On February 5, the Iranian security forces conducted a surgical operation across the Pakistan border and rescued two of its soldiers from a terror camp, Greek City Times reported.
In October 2018, the Jaish ul-Adl, a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisations, kidnapped 12 Iran s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).