NOURNEWS - An unidentified fighter plane approached the passenger plane of Mahan Airlines and the rapid maneuver of the pilot of the Iranian plane injured a number of passengers.
The Iranian plane with flight number 1152 was flying from Tehran to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, which was forced to change its position quickly after an unidentified fighter plane passed through the standard safety distance and approached the passenger plane.
Mahan passenger plane lands at Lebanese airport The injured passengers were taken to a medical center in Beirut for treatment.
According to the pilot of Mahan Airlines, the two fighters who threatened the plane in the Syrian skies were Americans.
In a conversation that the pilot of the Mahan plane had with the pilots of the two fighters to issue a warning to observe a safe distance, they introduced themselves as Americans.
If the move is finally approved by US fighter jets, it is expected that in the first step, diplomatic and legal measures will be taken to announce the official protest of the Islamic Republic against the hijacking of US terrorist fighter jets and threatening the lives of passengers.
The Israeli army, in response to the news about the interception of Iranian passenger planes by Israeli fighters, stated: The fighters that intercepted the Iranian plane were not Israelis.
The official Syrian news agency quoted sources in the country's aviation authority as saying that the Iranian passenger plane was disturbed in the Al-Tanf area, located on the Iraqi-Syrian border.
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