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Iran Guards foil plane hijacking

By AFP
March 06, 2021

Tehran: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday that they foiled the hijacking of a plane by an assailant who intended to have the internal flight redirected to a neighbouring Gulf Arab country. "The plot to hijack a Fokker-100 plane of Iran Air... was neutralised on Thursday night by the vigilance of the Guards," said a statement posted on the Guards’ Sepahnews website.