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.