A RUSSIAN-MADE Iranian passenger plane carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew crash-landed in northeastern Iran yesterday injuring at least 46 people, state television reported.

A RUSSIAN-MADE Iranian passenger plane carrying 168 people crashed shortly after take-off yesterday, smashing into a field northwest of the capital and shattering into flaming pieces. All on board were killed in Iran’s worst air disaster in six years, officials said.

IRANIAN security officials defused a bomb planted on a plane carrying 131 passengers, officials said yesterday, the latest incident of violence ahead of next month’s presidential election.

The commander of the ground forces of the elite Revolutionary Guards died today when a small military passenger jet crashed in north-western Iran trying to make an emergency landing, official media reported.