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PLANE TRUTH The Iranians have succeeded in creating a busy air shuttle that provides a steady supply of fighters and weapons from Iran to the battlefields of Syria (Photo: AFP/IMAGEBANK)
O n a late November night in 2016 Tobias Schneider an international security analyst and veteran Syria watcher noticed some unusual activity on his computer screen.
An Iran Air passenger plane apparently en route from Tehran to Baghdad had misidentified itself with a false flight number. It was in fact headed for Damascus. Schneider reported this on his Twitter feed.
In subsequent nights he discovered this was common practice. Passenger planes from civilian airlines such as Iran Air Mahan Air and Pouya Air all reported fake flight numbers changed ID codes in midflight or switched off their identifying transmitters giving false reports about their flight plans. In all cases the real route was from Tehran to Damascus with an important stopover in the city of Abadan near the Iran-Iraq border.
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