ISIL Plots to Hijack Iranian Planes Foiled by IRGC Flight Guards

[Dominance]

ISIL Plots to Hijack Iranian Planes Foiled by IRGC Flight Guards

Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:54

TEHRAN (FNA)- The flight guard forces (Air Marshals) of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps have defused several plots hatched by the terrorist ISIL group to hijack the Iranian planes, an IRGC commander revealed on Saturday.
Speaking to FNA on attempts to hijack the Iranian planes in recent years, Deputy Chief Liaison Officer of Flight Guards Corps Ya’qoub Baqeri spoke of the terrorist ISIL group's failed plots in this regard.

Ya’qoub Baqeri

"The ISIL and other Salafi groups sought to hit a blow to our country this way, but fortunately, they couldn’t put their plots into practice," Baqeri said on Saturday.

In relevant remarks in December 2013, Baqeri said that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) had praised the IRGC forces for their strong and excellent measures in protecting Iranian flights against hijacking attacks.

“In 2005, the ICAO inspected the method used by the IRGC for security (of Iranian flights) and we received an excellent score,” Baqeri added.

He underlined that the IRGC forces had been so much successful in protecting the Iranian flights that many world states had voiced their willingness to be informed of the details of their work and receive trainings in this field.

“We have had meetings with the representatives of different world states and they had some requests to receive training, but this has not happened yet due to our security considerations,” Baqeri said.

Also, Deputy Commander of Iran's Flight Security Guards announced in December 2012 that the country had thwarted 120 plane hijacking attempts in the last 28 years.

Lieutenant Commander of IRGC's Flight Guards Corps Colonel Safar Ali Moussavi said since 1984 his forces had defused 120 hijack attacks, but explained that physical operations on board flights only happened in 20 cases, 12 of which included shootings.

"Since 1984, we have had 20 cases of clashes on board the planes, 12 of which have led to shoot-out and bloodshed," Moussavi said, adding that the most dangerous hijacking in the country occurred on an Ahwaz-Bandar Abbas flight, at the end of which his forces could foil the hijacking attempt which was staged by 20 terrorists.

"In 100 other cases, the hijacking started when the plane was still on the ground and the clashes and shootouts, thus, took place before take off," he added.

Moussavi said that the latest hijacking in the country was related to the Tehran-Damascus flight in 2010, which was foiled, and added that no cases of hijacking took place in Iran this year.

In November 2010, Iranian security forces foiled an attempted hijack of a plane bound for the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The plane en route from Tehran to Damascus landed safely at the Syrian capital's airport after the man threatening to hijack the airliner was arrested by the security guards on board.

Later, the IRGC announced that the hijacker was an affiliate of anti-revolutionary groups.

 

[Winchester]

the country had thwarted 120 plane hijacking attempts in the last 28 years.

This is a HUGE number

Since 1984, we have had 20 cases of clashes on board the planes, 12 of which have led to shoot-out and bloodshed

this also means on 20 occasions people were able to board a plane even though they had hostile intent and weapons
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its ok to be proud of your national institutions but the right questions need to be asked !

 

[haman10]

this also means on 20 occasions

all of them happened during the 1980s and 90s . iran was engaged in a bloody war and we had no experience with that kind of crazy .

we learnt the hard way .

 

[Arminkh]

Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO): US-Israel Sponsored Terrorist Entity directed against Iran | Global Research

n their abortive effort to assassinate another Iranian nuclear scientist, Israeli officials only sustained desperation and disgrace in their dastardly elimination campaign against Iran which was apparently in sync with ISIL inhumane brutalities inside Iraq and Syria.

More alert than ever, security forces are diligently tasked with protecting the lives of the Iranian scientists wherever they are.

A top Iranian military official said on Saturday that in the last two years, “the Zionist entity has been making clandestine efforts to assassinate an Iranian nuclear scientist, but the timely presence of the IRGC security forces thwarted the terrorist operation.”

It is now common knowledge that Tel Aviv has been carrying out covert ops inside the Iranian soil for a couple of years, assassinating Iranian nuclear officials and scientists although Israel has constantly declined to admit to its unjustified iniquity against the Iranian nation.

Translating suspicion into conviction, a report carried by CBS News in March 2014 revealed that Obama has pressured Israeli espionage apparatuses to put an end to their assassinations inside Iran against the country’s nuclear scientists.

The terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization AKA MKO or MEK seems to be a ubiquitous agent any time there is an assassination in Iran. A shadowy cult with myriad of financial, military and intelligence connections to Tel Aviv and Washington, the MKO works in league with Kidon, the assassination unit within the Mossad. There are solid reports which indicate that the MKO members have received military and intelligence training both from the US forces as well as from the Mossad.

In 2012, Seymour M. Hersh revealed that at a secret site in Nevada, the US Special Operations Command (JSOC) conducted training, beginning in 2005, for members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, “a dissident Iranian opposition group known in the West as the M.E.K.” According to the report, the training ended sometime before President Obama took office. A retired four-star general says, “They got the standard training, in commo, crypto [cryptography], small-unit tactics, and weaponry—that went on for six months…. They were kept in little pods.”

Within the US government, the cult enjoys a rather immense support for their sabotage activities against the Islamic Republic. Among their shills are former top Bush officials and other Republicans (Michael Mukasey, Fran Townsend, Andy Card, Tom Ridge, Rudy Giuliani) as well as prominent Democrats (Howard Dean, Ed Rendell, Bill Richardson, Wesley Clark).

A revealing report by NBC News report by Richard Engel and Robert Windrem cites two anonymous senior US officials with two interesting claims: 1) that it was MEK which perpetrated thestring of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and 2) the terrorist group “is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service.” So the report testifies to the veracity of what Iranian officials have asserted about the involvement of MEK and Israel in murdering nuclear scientists on the Iranian soil.

Interestingly, a few weeks ago, I received a threatening email from Ali Safavi, the notorious MKO spokesman (through a western publisher of mine) in which he had pontificated about the virtues of the MKO terrorists and the so-called ‘vices’ of the Islamic Republic, accusing me of serving as a mouthpiece for the Islamic Republic. I strongly believe that revealing the murky realities of a terrorist group responsible for the deaths of 17000 innocent Iranians is only my ethical obligation. Besides, Ali Safavi and the likes

of him should come to their senses and realize that their efforts to whitewash their crimes will eventually prove pointless and that there is no way at all for them to lend a cloak of legitimacy to their unnamable crimes against the Iranian nation.

During the Iraq-Iran war, the MKO joined hands with Saddam Hussein, the tyrannical ruler of Iraq in attacking and killing Iranian combatants. However, a bloodier chapter in the history of the cult can be traced in their collusion with Saddam in crushing the popular uprisings in 1991. No doubt, their tanks took an inconceivable reprisal on thousands of innocent civilians. The callous command of Maryam Rajavi is still gnawing and tearing at the hearts and minds of the Iraqis: “Take the Kurds under your tanks, and save your bullets for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.”

Unfortunately, the MKO, long considered a terrorist organization, was delisted thanks to the unflagging endeavors of former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In 2011, Mohamed Ali Lobnani, a Lebanese national, who was arrested on charges of spying for Mossad confessed that he had spied for Israel under the cover of a Shiite cleric in Lebanon.

In a court hearing session, Lobnani said he had phone contacts with Mohammad Alizadeh, an MKO ringleader, claiming that had no idea that the number was a Mossad contact number.

Asked about the link between MKO and Mossad, he noted, “As far as I know, the group (MKO) has been collaborating with Israel for several years and has massive interactions with Mossad.”

The MKO is the artifact of a corrupt ideology which is in many respects comparable to that of the ISIL cult. No wonder they are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the ISIL terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

The fact that these two curious cults are thriving rigorously, that the West caters – either publicly or secretly – to their cravings, that they are being bigheartedly financed by the puppet regional regimes and that they receive sophisticated military and intelligence training from Mossad and CIA evinces a believable bond between the two.

That the MKO and the ISIL cults are pursing the selfsame path of perversion is no coincidence at all. The reason is simple: they are cut from the same cloth. And that Mossad is dispatching assassins into Iran to liquidate Iranian scientists is only meant to strike fear and beyond that, to secretly make up for what the ISIL and MKO terrorists feel emasculated to do in Iran.

 

[gslv]

Good job Iran, never give in to ISIS.

 

[root]

I am impressed in middle east Iran is the only country with powerfull Military all others are useless.

 

[mike2000]

I am impressed in middle east Iran is the only country with powerfull Military all others are useless.

You are right, but I will say Iran and Turkey, still all the rest are still pretty useless without our( western/U.S) support.

 

[root]

You are right, but I will say Iran and Turkey, still all the rest are still pretty useless without our( western/U.S) support.

All others are west puppet cannot take any action without there permission.