Iran accuses Britain of role in plane crashes

Iran today claimed it had information that the United States, Britain and Israel had a role in two deadly military plane crashes in the last two months.

It was the latest accusation by Tehran against the West in their sharpening confrontation.

A day earlier, Iran blamed the United States and Britain for two bombings that killed at least nine people in the south-western city of Ahvaz.

“The information we have says that the US, Britain and Israel’s intelligence agents intended to create insecurity in Iran,” Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi told reporters on the sidelines of a police seminar.

Pourmohammadi did not elaborate and did not give any evidence.

In early January, an Iranian military flight carrying a commander of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards and 10 others crashed while trying to make an emergency landing, killing all aboard.

On December 6, 2005, a military transport plane crashed into a 10-story building near Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, killing 115 people.