{"id":4108,"date":"2018-09-05T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T10:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2018-09-05T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T10:56:25","slug":"iranian-civil-airline-suspected-of-smuggling-weapons-to-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/05\/iranian-civil-airline-suspected-of-smuggling-weapons-to-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"IRANIAN CIVIL AIRLINE SUSPECTED OF SMUGGLING WEAPONS TO LEBANON"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Ynetnews<\/p>\n

Western intelligence officials said Iran’s Fars Air Qeshm civil airline is suspected of smuggling weapons into Lebanon, destined for the Hezbollah terror group and Iranian weapons manufacturing factories in the country, Fox News reported Monday.<\/p>\n

The officials told Fox news they had uncovered the unusual routes that Iran apparently took to try avoiding detection.<\/p>\n

Two rare and unusual Qeshm Fars Air flights were identified from Tehran to the international airport in Beirut during the past two months.<\/p>\n

According to Fox News, one of the flights in which a Boeing 747 that departed on July 9 from an air force base in Tehran, stopped for a short layover at the international airport in Damascus, continuing with a rather \u201cuncharacteristic flight path\u201d to the Beirut international airport and landing at about 4 pm in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Fox News added that the second unusual flight was conducted on August 2. After departing Tehran’s international airport, flight number QFZ9960 landed in Beirut at 5:59 pm. This time, the plane did not stop for a layover in Damascus. However, it followed a slightly irregular route north of Syria<\/p>\n

Read more at: https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-5340780,00.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Ynetnews Western intelligence officials said Iran’s Fars Air Qeshm civil airline is suspected of smuggling weapons into Lebanon, destined for the Hezbollah terror group and Iranian weapons manufacturing factories in the country, Fox News reported Monday. The officials told Fox news they had uncovered the unusual routes that Iran apparently took to try avoiding… Continue reading IRANIAN CIVIL AIRLINE SUSPECTED OF SMUGGLING WEAPONS TO LEBANON<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4110,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions\/4110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}