Attempted hijacking in Iran

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Anyone have any ideas/info as the airline which was operating the =
Tu-154? Kish Air? Caspian? Qeshm? Mahan? Iran Air Tours?

http://www.irna.com/en/head/020512115707.ehe.shtml

Iran's security operatives foil plane hijacking attempt=20

     (REPETITION: To fix date of hijacking in 1st graph, writing thru)=20
Tehran, May 12, IRNA -- Security operatives aboard a domestic Iranian=20
passenger plane foiled a hijacking attempt on Saturday evening and   =20
arrested a man who had threatened to blow a bomb, turned out to be a =20
hoax.                                                                =20
    The incident happened at 21:15 hours (1645 GMT) when the plane, a=20
Russian-made Tupolev-145, was flying from the southeastern city of   =20
Kerman to capital Tehran at a height of 30,000 feet.                 =20
    The hijacker, who had sprayed his clothes with alcohol, was      =20
threatening to set himself alight with a lighter in his hand and blow=20
a bomb if prevented from going into the cockpit.                     =20
    He was subdued by the plain-clothes security operatives of the   =20
Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps before entering the cockpit.       =20
    The plane safely touched down at the Mehrabad Airport.           =20
    The identity of the hijacker and his motives are not known yet.  =20
BH/AR                                                                =20
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