Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it thwarted plane hijacking

The perpetrator attempted to land the plane in a Gulf country, Iranian media reported the corps as saying. Many details surrounding the incident are unknown.
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The Islamic Rvolutionary Guard Corps says it stopped a hijacking of an Iran Air Fokker on March 4, 2021. Here, an Airbus A321 airliner arrives at the Mehrabad international airport during the delivery of the first batch of planes to Iran Air in the capital, Tehran, on Jan. 12, 2017. - ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has thwarted a plane hijacking.

An unidentified perpetrator tried to hijack an Iran Air flight from Ahwaz to Mashhad on Thursday night. The elite Iranian military unit said members of its Flight Security Guard Corps foiled the plan. The plane conducted an emergency landing in Isfahan and the would-be hijacker was arrested, the semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported Friday.

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